KKKD-AVAT^RLER. 



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ACKOCEPHALUS STKEPEEUS (Yieillot*). 



THE REED-WARBLEK. 



S((lic<(ri(( (intndinacea +, 



The REED-WAPtBLEP. appears to have l)een first clearly 

 distinguished by the late Mr. Lightfoot, "nho, in a letter 

 to Sir Joseph Banks, dated " Uxbridge, Nov. 20, 1783." 

 read November 17tli, 1784, before the Royal Society, and 

 printed in its ' Transactions ' for the following year, well 

 descrilied the habits, plumage and nest of this species, 

 \\hich he found frequenting the reeds of the river Colne at 

 Denham in Middlesex. The nest and eggs had also been 

 sent to him from Dartford by Latham, who did not know the 



* Sylvia sirepera, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 182 (1817). 



f Molacilln arundinacen, Lightfoot, Phil. Trans. Ixxv. p. 11 (178.')); but 

 not Turdux urundinaceus, Linnteus (1766), whicli, being strictly con<;eneric, 

 i.s entitled by j)riority to this specific name. 



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