46 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS 



Since the publication of the first edition of this 

 "Handbook," closer attention having been paid to 

 the outdoor observation of birds, three new species 

 of Wheatear have been added to the British list : 

 the Black-throated, the Isabelline, and the Desert 

 Wheatears. These will be found included in the 

 second part of this volume, and for the habitat of 

 each see Blanford and Dresser's monograph of the 

 genus Saxicola {Proc. Zool. Soc, 1874). 



V REED WARBLER. Acrocephalus streperus (Vieillot). 

 PI. 8, fig. 12. Length, 5*3 in. ; wing, 2*7 in. ; tarsus, 

 •8 in. 



A summer migrant to England, where it is 

 chiefly confined to the midland, eastern, and south- 

 eastern counties ; very rare in Scotland, and almost 

 unknown in Ireland. It is included in Templeton's 

 " Catalogue of the Birds of Ireland" as having been 

 seen in the vicinity of Belfast, and a bird of this 

 species is stated to have been shot at Raheny, near 

 Dublin (Thompson, "Nat. Hist. Ireland, Birds," vol. i. 

 p. 183). See also Kinahan {ZooL, 1860, p. 6961) 

 and Blake Knox (Zool, 1870, p. 2018). 



MARSH WARBLER. Acrocephalus palustris (Bechstein). 

 PI. 8, fig. 11. Length, 5*5 in.; wing, 2*5 in.; tarsus, -9 in. 



For a long time confounded with the Reed 

 Warbler, which it closely resembles, but now 

 believed by many good observers to be, like that 

 species, an annual summer visitant. See remarks 

 on this bird by Victor Fatio, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 



