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ACROCEPHALUS DUMETORUM 



138. Acrocephalus dumetorum Blyth — BLYTH'S REED- 

 WARBLER. 



AcROCEPHALUS DUMETORUM Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Bengal, xviii, p. 815 

 (1849 — Xew name for the Sylvia montana or Acrocephalus montanus oi 

 Indian authors, which had been erroneously identified with Horsfield's 

 Sylvia 7nontana — India). 



Acrocephalus dumetorum Blyth, W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Xat. Hist., 1911, 

 p. 70 ; c/. Brit. B., iv, p. 362. 



Distribution. — Scotland. — One Fair Isle, Sept., 1910 [ut supra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Central Asia from Himalayas north- 

 ward, east to Transcaspia, Altai, Turkestan, west Siberia, and 

 parts of European Russia. Winters in India, south to Ceylon. 



ACROCEPHALUS SCHCENOB^ENUS 



139. Acrocephalus schcenobaenus (L.) — THE SEDGE- 

 WARBLER. 



MoTACiLLA ScHCENOB.ENus Linnseus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 184 (1758 — 



" Habitat in Europa." Restricted typical locality : S. Sweden). 



Acrocephalus phragmitis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B., i, p. 352 ; also older 



authors. 



Acrocephalus schoenoboenus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, i, p. 376 ; Saunders, 



p. 85. 



Distribution. — England, Wales, and Ireland. — Summer-resident 

 (late April to late Sept). Generally distributed. Occasionally 

 occurs in Oct. (probably on passage) and exceptionally in winter. 

 Scotland. — Generally distributed, but rarer in north, and very rare 

 north-west ; scarce Orkneys ; unkno^^Tl Shetlands, but of double 

 passage Fair Isle ; scarce breeder in some I. Hebrides, but absent 

 from others ; very rare vagrant 0. Hebrides (Barra). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — From about lat. 70° north in Sweden, 

 the Murman Coast and Archangel, Ob and Yenisei throughout 

 north Siberia and Altai Mountains, Russia and Europe, but rare or 

 absent from Spain and Greece, wintering in Asia Minor and Africa. 



ACROCEPHALUS AQUATICUS 



140. Acrocephalus aquaticus (Gm.) — THE AQUATIC 

 WARBLER. 



MoTACiLLA AQUATiCA Gmelin, Syst. Xat., i, ii, p. 953 (1789 — Xo locality 

 given. Ex Scopoli, who described birds from Camiola or Venetia). 

 Acrocephalus aquaticus (J. F. Gmelin), Yarrell, i, p. 380 ; Saunders, p. 87. 



