a. and sb. Ornith. [ad. mod.L. Sylvicolīnæ pl., f. Sylvicola, a former generic name, = L. silvicola inhabiting woods: see -INE1.] a. adj. Belonging to the Sylvicolinæ, a former division of the family then called Sylvicolidæ (now Mniotiltidæ), comprising the typical American warblers. b. sb. A bird of this division.
1872. Coues, Key N. Amer. Birds, 91. The student will be able to assure himself that his specimen is a sylvicoline. Ibid. (1878), Birds Colorado Valley, 484. The genus Icteria … seems decidedly Tanagroid or Sylvicoline.
