Sylvid warbler

Sylviid warblers, Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that was part of an assemblage known as the Old World warblers. The family was formerly a wastebin taxon with over 400 species of bird in over 70 genera. The family was poorly defined with many characteristics shared with other families. Advances in classification, particularly helped with molecular data, have led to the splitting out of several new families from within this group. Today the smaller family Sylviidae includes the typical warblers in the genus Sylvia, the parrotbills of Asia (formerly a separate family Paradoxornithidae), a number of babblers formerly placed within the family Timaliidae (which is itself currently being split) and the Wrentit, an unusual North American bird that has been a longstanding taxonomic mystery.

Description
They are small to medium-sized, with generally thin, pointed bill with bristles at the base, a slender shape and an inconspicuos and mostly plain plumage. Then wings show ten primaries feather, and are rounded and short in non-migratory species.

Family Sylviidae sensu stricto
True warblers (or sylviid warblers) and parrotbills. A fairly diverse group of smallish taxa with longish tails. Mostly in Asia, to a lesser extent in Africa. A few range into Europe; one monotypic genus on west coast of North America.

Genus Sylvia
Temperate Eurasian superspecies ("atricapilla-borin group")
 * Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla
 * Garden Warbler, Sylvia borin

Afrotropical superspecies
 * Dohrn's Thrush-babbler / Principe Flycatcher-Babbler, Sylvia dohrni
 * Bush Blackcap, Sylvia nigricapillus
 * Ruwenzori Hill-Babbler, Sylvia atriceps
 * African Hill-Babbler, Sylvia abyssinica
 * Abyssinian Catbird, Sylvia galinieri

Genus Atraphornis

 * Asian Desert-Warbler, Atraphornis nana
 * African Desert-Warbler, Atraphornis deserti

Genus Curruca
Adophoneus
 * Barred Warbler, Curruca [Adophoneus] nisoria

Parisoma
 * Layard's Warbler, Curruca [Parisoma] layardi
 * Banded Parisoma, Curruca [Parisoma] boehmi
 * Chestnut-vented Warbler, ''Curruca [Parisoma] subcaeruleum'

Curruca clade
 * Yemen Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] buryi
 * Brown Warbler / Brown Parisoma, Curruca [Curruca] lugens
 * Arabian Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] leucomelaena
 * Western Orphean-Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] hortensis
 * Eastern Orphean-Warbler, Curruca [Curruca] crassirostris

"Lesser Whitethroat" complex
 * Lesser Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] curruca
 * Desert Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] minula
 * •Siberian Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] blythi
 * •Steppe Whitethroat, Curruca halimodendri
 * Mountain Whitethroat / Hume's Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] althaea
 * •Stolzmann's Whitethroat, Curruca [Curruca] margelanica
 * Dots indicate new species.

Genus Melizophilus

 * Tristram's Warbler, Melizophilus deserticola
 * Menetries's Warbler, Melizophilus mystacea
 * Common Whitethroat, Melizophilus communis
 * Spectacled Warbler, Melizophilus conspicillata
 * Marmora's Warbler, Melizophilus sarda
 * Dartford Warbler, Melizophilus undata
 * Balearic Warbler, Melizophilus balearica
 * Cyprus Warbler, Melizophilus melanothorax
 * Rueppell's Warbler, Melizophilus rueppelli
 * Sardinian Warbler, Melizophilus melanocephala
 * Levant Sardinian Warbler, Melizophilus (melanocephala) momus
 * Fayyum Warbler, Melizophilus melanocephala norissae - doubtfully distinct, extinct (c.1940)
 * Moltoni's Warbler, Melizophilus subalpina
 * Western Subalpine Warbler, Melizophilus inornata
 * Eastern Subalpine Warbler, Melizophilus cantillans

Genus Myzornis

 * Fire-tailed Myzornis, Myzornis pyrrhoura

Genus Rhopophilus

 * Tarim Babbler, Rhopophilus albosuperciliaris
 * Beijing Babbler / Chinese Hill Warbler, Rhopophilus pekinensis. Formerly in Cisticolidae.

Genus Lioparus

 * Golden-breasted Fulvetta, Lioparus chrysotis. Formerly in Alcippe (Timaliidae).

Genus Paradoxornis
Typical parrotbills (18 species).

Genus Conostoma

 * Great Parrotbill, Conostoma aemodium

Genus Fulvetta
Typical fulvettas (7 species). Formerly in Alcippe (Timaliidae).

Genus Chrysomma
Formerly in Timaliidae.

Genus Chamaea

 * Wrentit, Chamaea fasciata