Sylvioid "warblers"
These are somewhat more closely related to each other than to other "warblers". They belong to a superfamily also containing Old World babblers, bulbuls, etc.
- "Old World warblers", formerly all in family Sylviidae
- Leaf warblers, now in family Phylloscopidae
- Typical bush warblers, now in family Cettiidae
- Grass warblers and megalurid bush-warblers, now in family Locustellidae
- Marsh and tree warblers, now in family Acrocephalidae
- True warblers or sylviid warblers, remaining in family Sylviidae or moved into the Timaliidae
- Malagasy warblers, the newly assembled family Bernieridae
- Cisticolid warblers, family Cisticolidae
- "African warblers", possibly another novel family
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