Definition of Family Sylviidae

1. Noun. In some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sylviidae

family Stercorariidae
family Sterculiaceae
family Stichaeidae
family Stizidae
family Strelitziaceae
family Streptomycetaceae
family Strigidae
family Stromateidae
family Strombidae
family Strophariaceae
family Struthionidae
family Sturnidae
family Styracaceae
family Suidae
family Sulidae
family Sylviidae (current term)
family Symplocaceae
family Synchytriaceae
family Syngnathidae
family Synodontidae
family Tabanidae
family Taccaceae
family Tachinidae
family Tachyglossidae
family Taeniidae
family Talpidae
family Tamaricaceae
family Tapiridae
family Tarsiidae
family Taxaceae

Literary usage of Family Sylviidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"family Sylviidae. Kinglets and Gnatcatchers. g*. Bill either long and slender or short and stout but not notched: perceptibly conoid. ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"family Sylviidae—The Warblers | - | Washington: | Government Printing Office, | 1904.= Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 50, Part III. ..."

3. Life-histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania by Thomas George Gentry (1876)
"family Sylviidae. Sylvias. The birds constituting this large family are chiefly denizens of the Old World, but sparingly represented in the New. ..."

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