90 TURDID^. 



Acroceplialus salicariiis (Lirm.), apiid Naum. Nat. Land- u. IFass.- 



Vog. nordl. Deutschl., Xachtr. Heft iv. p. 203 (1811). 

 Sylvia aquatica {GmeL), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 131 (1815) ; Temm. 

 'Man. d'Orn. i. p. 188(1820); Naum. Vog. Deutschl. iii. p. 686 



(1823); Werner, Atlas, Insectwores,Y\. 28 (18J2) ; KJcerb. Danm. 



Fugle, p. 169(18o2); Sundev. Sv. Fogl. p. 71 (1856); Fallon, Ois. 



Beige, p. 48 (1875). 

 Muscipeta salicaiia {Linn.), apud Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 164 



(1816). 

 Sylvia paludicola, Vieill. N Diet. dHist. Nat. xi. p. 202 (1817) ; 



Vieill. Famie Franq. i. p. 225 (1820) ; Roux, Orn. Prov. i. p. 354 



(1825). 

 Sj'lvia cariceti, Naum. Lsis, 1821, p. 785 ; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. iii. 



p. 668 (J 823); Nordm. Demid. Vog. Huss. merid. iii. p. 146 



(1840) ; Sehl. Rev. Crit. p. 58 (1844) ; iqcerb. Damn. Fugle, 



p. 169 (1852) ; Sundev. Sv. Fogl. p. 71 (1856). 

 Calamoberpe aquatica {Gmel.), Boie, lsis, 1822, p. 552; Selgs-Longch. 



Faun. Belg. p. 102 (1842). 

 Calamoherpe cariceti {Naum.), Boie, Lsis, 1822, p. 552. 

 Sylvia striata, Brehm, Lehrh. Naturg. i. p. 365 (1823). 

 Calamodyta aquatica {Gmel.), Kaup, Natiirl. Sgst. p. 118 (1829); 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1840); Bp. Cat. Metod. Ucc. Eur. p. 35 



(1842) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 254 (1859) ; Newt. 



List B. Eur. Biasing, p. 11 (1862) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. 



p. 535 ( 1867) ; Loche, Expl. Sci. Alqer., Ois. p. 263 (1867) ; Gray, 



Lland-l. B. i. p. 209. no. 2965 (18B9); Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 128 



(1869) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. p. 156 (1870) ; Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. 



p. 116 (1«71) ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 92 (1872) ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. 



ii. pi. Ixxvi. (1873). 

 Calamoherpe limicola, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 451 (1831). 

 Calamoherpe striata {Brehm), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 452 (1831). 

 Salicaria aquatica {Gmel.), Govld, B. Eur. ii. pi. 111. fig. 2 (1837) ; 



Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 182 (1840) ; Schl. Rev. Crit. p. xxviii 



(1844) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 93 (1860); Harting, Handb. 



£r.^. p. 105(1872).^ 

 Calamodyta cariceti {Naum.), Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. S/- N. Amer. 



p. 12 (1838) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848). 

 Calamodyta schcenobfenus {Linn.), apud Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. S/- 



N. Amer. p. 12 (lt38). 

 Calamodus salicarius {Linn.) apud Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 39 (1850). 

 Acrocephalus aquaticus {Gmel), Neiot. ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 380 



(1873) ; Dresser, B. Eur. pt. Ii. (1876). 



The general colour of the upper parts is a pale tawny brown ; 

 eye-stripe very distinct, greyish white, and extending almost to the 

 nape ; lores and the feathers behind the eye russet-brown ; over 

 each eye-stripe a broad very dark-brown streak passes to the nape, 

 leaving a narrow mesial line on the crown ; each feather of the 

 rest of the upper parts, inchidiug the wing-coverts, innermost- 



the first writer to use the name aquatica to a clearly defined species ; and since 

 his name has been in general use, and has not been extensively, if at all, applied 

 to any other species in the genus, we are, in my opinion, justified in calling the 

 Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus aquaticus (Temm.), consigning the Motacilla 

 aquatica of Gmeliu. and the Sylvia aquatica of Latham, beyond the limbo of 

 synonyms to the lethe of pre-Liuntean oblivion. 



