352 BRITISH BIRDS. 
ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMITIS*. 
SEDGE-WARBLER. 
(Pxare 10.) . 
? Ficedula curruca sylvestris, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 893 (1760). 
2? Motacilla schcenobzenus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 329 (1766). 
Motacilla salicaria, Linn. apud Tunst. Orn. Brit. p. 2 (1771). 
Sylvia salicaria (Zinn.) apud Lath, Gen. Syn. Suppl. 1. p. 237 (1787). 
? Sylvia schoenobzenus (Linn.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 510 (1790). 
Sylvia phragmitis, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 186 (1802); et auctorum pluri- 
morum—IVolf, Temminck, Naumann, Ménétriés, Jenyns, Eversmann, Nordmann, 
(Koch), (Bote), (Brehm), (Macgillivray), (Schlegel), (Kaup), (Selby), (Gould), 
(Ke series}, (Blasius), (Thompson), (Lindermayer), (Harting), (Bonaparte), 
(Degland), (Gerbe), (Loche), (Salvadori), Se. 
Acrocephalus phragmitis (Bechst.), Naum. Nat. Land- und Wass.- Veg. nordl. Deutschl., — 
Nachtr. iv. p. 202 (1811). } 
Muscipeta phragmitis (Bechst.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 163 (1816). ) 
Sylvia schcenobeenus (Linn.), Vieill. Faun. Frang. i. p. 224 (1820). } 
Calamoherpe phragmitis (Bechst.), Bote, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 
Curruca salicaria (Linn.), apud Fleming, Brit. An. p. 69 (1828). 
Calamodus phragmitis (Bechst.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 117 (1829). 
Calamoherpe tritici, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 449 (1831). 
Calamoherpe schcenobeenus (Linn.), Brehm, Vig. Deutschl. p. 450 (1831). 
Salicaria phragmitis (Bechst.), Selby, Brit. Orn. i. p. 201 (1833). ) 
Calamodyta phragmitis (Bechst.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. § N. Amer. p. 12 
(1838). 
Calamodyta schoenobzenus (Linn.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 209, no. 2964 (1869). 
Acrocephalus schcenobeenus (Linn.), Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 376 (1873). 
Calamodus schcenobeenus (Linn.), Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 199 (1876). 
Although there can be no doubt that Linneus was acquainted with ‘the 
Sedge-Warbler, yet his diagnoses are so vague that it is impossible to say_ 
whether he intended to designate it by the name of Motacilla schenobenus 
or Motacilla salicaria—Vieillot, Sundevall, Brehm, and Newton identifying — 
it with the former, and Tunstall, Donovan, Latham, Leach, Forster, and — 
Fleming with the latter. The first clear definition seems to have been that of 
Pennant, who described and figured the bird in 1766 under the name of the 
* In my opinion no possible good can arise, and much confusion must be caused, by 
rejecting the name in common use for the Sedge-Warbler, which was well defined 
by Bechstein, in favour of the ill-defined name supposed to have been given to it by 
Linneus. I admit that the evidence of the ‘Fauna Suecica’ leaves little room for doubt 
that Linnzeus intended to describe the Sedge-Warbler ; but his description was so meagre 
that it met with the neglect that it deserved. 7 
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