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The Aquatic Warbler (Acrocephalus aquaticus) was obtained 
by Mr. Gordon, at Dover, and is in the Dover Museum. In the 
second edition of Yarrell’s British Birds, under the term Salicaria, 
were included the Grasshopper, the Sedge, the Reed and Sayins 
Warblers, the only then known species frequenting the British 
Isles; they are now included in the Genera <Acrocephalus. 'The 
number of fresh names given to the genera and species of late, 
render the naming and determining the synonymes of the species 
a difficult task. JI had generally been accustomed to the names 
given in the second edition of Yarreil, but the succeeding editions 
have altered these, and the last edition is now superseded by a 
revised list by Mr. Howard Saunders, editor of the 4th edition of 
Yarrell’s History of British Birds, revised to April, 1887, in which 
a fresh list of names is introduced. I have compiled my Catalogue 
from the 4th edition of Yarrell, but this is hardly out of the 
publisher’s hands before we are required to modify the names ; 
to prevent confusion, I have retained the names and arrangements 
of the 4th edition. The Sedge Warbler is common in my 
immediate neighbourhood; 1 have found its nest usurped by the 
Cuckoo. 
I have had in my garden in one season the Nightingale, 
Blackeap, White Throat, Golden Crested Wren, the Willow Wren, 
Hedge Sparrow and Robin; and near the house the Wryneck and 
Reed Warbler. The note of the Nightingale is admirably represented 
by the following music, taken from Macgillivray’s History of 
British Birds, which I here transcribe for the use of my readers 
that have not his book to refer to. Muacgillivray writes, that it was 
dictated to him by a Frenchman, who sang the ditty. 
bon Dieu m’a donné une fem--me, Que jai tant, tant, tant, tant, 
Men. BR we oe 
Boe oi 
Saas See ieee 
Le 
bat-tue Que s’il m/’endon-ne une autre, Je ne la bat-ter- -ais plus, 
plus, plus, plus, Qu’un petit, qu’un petit, quwun petit ! 
Robins, of course, we have all the year round; there are many 
anecdotes touching the queer places they sclect and make their 
nests in, In my garden I found one built in a small watering pot, 
