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ACROCEPHALUS TURDOIDES*. 
GREAT REED-WARBLER. 
(Prats 10.) 
Turdus arundinacus, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 219, pl. xxii. fig. 1 (1760); Linn. Syst. Nat. 
i. p. 296 (1766). 
Acrocephalus lacustris, Vawm. Natur. Land- u. Wass..Vog. nordl. Deutschl. Nachtr. 
iv. p. 201 (1811). 
Sylvia turdoides, Meyer, Vog. Liv.- u. Esthi. p. 116 (1815); et auctorum plurimo- 
rum— Temminck (Bote), Nawmann (Kaup), Ménétriés, (Brehm), (Lesson), ( Gould), 
(Bonaparte), Crespon, (Keyserling § Blasius), Nordmann, Werner, Kjerbolling, 
Sundevall, (Jaubert § Barthélemy-Lapommeraye), (Degland & Gerbe), (Loche), 
(Heuglin), (Doderlein), (Salvadori), Fallon, (Shelley), Sc. 
Muscipita lacustris (Nawm.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 166 (1816). 
Calamoherpe turdoides (Meyer), Bove, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 
Turdus junco, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 458 (1826). 
Hydrocupsichus turdoides (Meyer), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 121 829), 
Arundinaceus turdoides (Meyer), Less. Traité d’ Orn. p. 419 (1831). 
Calamoherpe lacustris (NVauwm.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 442 (1831). 
Calamoherpe stagnatilis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschi. p. 442 (1831). 
Salicaria turdoides (Meyer), Gould, B. Eur. ii. pl. evi. (1837). 
Acrocephalus arundinaceus (Linn.), Gray, List Gen. B. p. 28 (1841). 
Sylvia turdina, Gloger, Handb. Naturg. p. 312 (1842). 
Salicaria turdina (Gloger), Schleg. Rev. Crit. p. xxvii (1844). 
Calamodyta arundinacea (Linn.), Gray, Gen. B.i. p. 172 (1848). 
Calamoherpe media, Malm. Gi/v. Vet.-Ak. Handi. 1851, p. 159. 
Calamoherpe turdina ( Gloger), Schleg. Vog. Nederl. p. 142 (1854). 
Acrocephalus turdoides (Meyer), Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 289 (1869). 
Acrocephalus arabicus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 289 (1869). 
Salicaria arundinacea (Linn.), Harting, Handb. Br. B. p. 14 (1872). 
Acrocephalus fulvolateralis, Sharpe, ed. Layard’s B. S. Afr. p. 289 (1877). 
Linneus placed this fine Reed-Warbler amongst his Thrushes, and thus 
laid the foundation for much confusion in its synonymy, whilst some 
British ornithologists have confounded it with the Eastern Nightingale, 
a bird which really is very closely allied to the Thrushes. The only 
satisfactorily authenticated instance of the occurrence of the Great Reed- 
Warbler in our islands is the one recorded by Hancock in his ‘ Catalogue 
* It is to be hoped that British ornithologists will support me in using the name which 
has been applied to this species by far the greatest number of authors, and which remains 
in universal use on the continent. It is impossible to protest too strongly against the 
practice of transferring a name from one species to another—a practice which strikes at 
the root of all attempts to obtain scientific accuracy and precision, and paves the way for 
endless confusion. There can be no great harm in calling this species A. lacustris or A. 
* Junco, but under no circumstances should it be called 4. arundinaceus. 
