subfamily

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Tordoff concludes, therefore, that the carduelines are not fringillids but ploceids, their closest affinities being with the ploceid Subfamily Estrildinae.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.

He excludes the carduelines from this assemblage, suggests that they are closely related to the estrildines, and includes them as the Subfamily Carduelinae in the Family Ploceidae.

From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.

B. Subfamily Moschinae.—Antlers wanting in both sexes; liver furnished with a gall-bladder; no face-gland or gland-pit.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Subfamily, sub′fam-i-li, n. a primary division of a family, of one or more genera.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various