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LOCUSTELLA LANCEOLATA 



134. Locustella lanceolata (Temm.)— THE LANCEOLATED 



WARBLER. 



Sylvia lanceolata Temminck, Man. d'Orn., ed. 11, iv, p. 614 (1840 — 

 Mainz ? Erroneous locality. Typical locality : Russia). 

 Locustella lanceolata, Caton-Haigh, Brit. B., in, p. 353. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Three. Male, North Cotes (Lines.), 

 Nov. 18, 1909 {ut supra) : one Pentland Skerries (Orkneys), 

 Oct. 26, 1910, and one Fair Isle, Sept. 9, 1908 (W. E. Clarke, 

 Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, p. 71 ; cf. Brit. B., iv, p. 368). 



Distribution — Abroad. — ^From Kamtschatka and north Japan to 

 west Siberia, rare in Russia (Onega R.), wintering in south China, 

 Borneo, Andamans, and India. 



ACROCEPHALUS ARUNDINACEUS 



135. Acrocephalus arundinaceus arundinaceus (L.) — THE 



GREAT REED-WARBLER. 



TuRDUs ARUNDINACEUS Liunseus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 170 (1758 — 

 ex Klein : Danzig). 



Acrocephalus arundinaceus (Linnseiis), Yarrell, i, p. 364 ; Acrocephalus 

 turdoides (Meyer), Savmders, p. 83. 



Distribution. — England. — About ten authentic occurrences besides 

 other unsubstantiated records. Newcastle (Northumberland), May 

 28, 1847 ; Sittingbourne, May 4, 1853, and Wingham (Kent), Sept. 

 14, 1881 ; Godalming (Surrey), spring, 1858 ; EUesmere (Salop), 

 about 1886 ; Ringwoocl, June 3, 1884, and Christchurch (Hants), 

 May 10, 1900 ; St. Leonards, Sept. 25, 1903, and Sept. 12, 1906, 

 and Bexhill (Sussex), Maj^ 1, 1905 ; one seen Horning (Norfolk), 

 May 1, 1906. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Middle and south Europe to north-west 

 Africa, eastwards at least to the Ural and (locally) west Siberia, 

 north to Baltic and Russian Baltic provinces, rare visitor to south 

 Sweden. Winters in tropical Africa south to Natal ; in Persia on 

 migration. Replaced by another race from Volga delta eastward 

 to Transcaspia and Turkestan and by third form in south-east 

 Siberia, north China, Japan, and Corea. 



ACROCEPHALUS STREPERUS 



136. Acrocephalus streperus streperus (Vieill.) — THE REED- 

 WARBLER. 



Sylvia strepera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., xi, p. 182 

 (1817— France). 



Acrocephalus arnndinaceiis (Brisson nee Newton), Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. , 

 I, p. 367 (erroneous). (See also Fleming, Selby, and others.) 

 Acrocephalus streperus (Vieillot), Yarrell, i, p. 309 ; Saunders, p. 79. 



