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PASSEBES. 



SYLVIlDyE. 



SYLVIIDJi. 



ACROCEPHALUS AQUATICUS (J. F. Gmeliii*). 

 THE AQUATIC WARBLER. 



Sufficiently resembling the species last described to liave 

 been more than once mistaken for it, is the bird above figured. 

 Yet the differences between them are plain enough when 

 pointed out, and the Aquatic Warbler may be easily recog- 

 nized by the prevailing yellow tints of its plumage generally 

 and by the conspicuous light-coloured stripe which runs along 

 the middle of its head. 



The first example of this bird announced as having occurred 

 in England was found by the Editor in the collection of 

 Mr. Borrer, who certified that it was observed, October 19tli, 

 1853, creeping about among the grass and reeds in an old 

 brick-pit a little to the west of Hove, near Brighton ; and 

 that, having been shot, he saw it just after it had been 

 skinned by Mr. H. Pratt of that town. The bird had been 



* Motacilla uquatiai, J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 953 (1788). 



