400 BRITISH BIRDS. 
SYLVIA HORTENSIS*. 
GARDEN-WARBLER. 
(Pirate 10.) 
Ficedula curruca minor, Briss. Orn. iil. p. 374 (1760). 
2 Motacilla salicaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 330 (1766). 
Motacilla hippolais, Linn. apud Tunst, Orn. Brit. p. 2 (1771). 
? Motacilla borin, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 35 (1783). 
Sylvia simplex, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 287 (1787). 
? Motacilla passerina, Gel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 954 (1788). 
S\lvia hortensis (Gmel.), var. 8, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 507 (1790). 
Motacilla hortensis, Gmel. apud Bechst, Natwrg. Deutschl. ty. p. 550, pl. xiii (1795). 
Sylvia hortensis, Gmel. apud Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 169 (1802); et auctorum 
; plurimorum — Wolf, Temminck, Naumann, Jenyns, Eversmann, Macgillivray, 
Keyserling, Blasius, Nordmann, Gray, Sundevall, Lindermayer, Schlegel, Heuglin, 
Degland, Gerbe, Salvadori, Gurney, (Sharpe), (Gould), Shelley, SIHarting, 
(Teming), (Selby), (Cabanis), (Bonaparte), (Thompson), (Loche), $c. 
Currucua hortensis (Gmel.), apud Koch, Syst. baier, Zool. i. p. 155 (1816). 
Sylvia wedonia, Vieill. N. Dict. d’ Hist. Nat. xi. p. 162 (1817, partim). 
Epilais hortensis (Gmel.), apud Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 145 (1829). 
Curruca brachyrhynchos, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl, p. 416 (1831). 
Curruca grisea, Brehm, Vig. Deutschl. p. 416 (1831, nee Vieill.). 
Adornis hortensis (Gmel.), apud Gray, List Gen, B. p. 29 (1841). 
Sylvia salicaria (Linn.), apud Newton, ed. Yarr, Br. B.i. p. 414 (1873). 
The Garden-Warbler, so far as can be ascertained, was first described 
by Willughby and Ray from an example which was sent to them by Mr. 
Francis Jessop, of Broom Hall, Sheffield. Francis Jessop was one of the 
earliest members of the Royal Society, and appears to have been well 
* Professor Newton and Mr. Dresser have done their best to cause the name of Sylvia 
hortensis to be rejected in fayour of that of Sylvia salicaria. There is considerable cir- 
cumstantial evidence that Linnzeus intended to describe the Garden-Warbler as Motacilla 
salicaria; but it is impossible to understand how the authors above named can reconcile 
the vague diagnosis of Linneeus (containing, amongst others, the character “supercilia — 
alba” and the supplementary note “ pedes fulvi,” neither of which apply to the Garden- 
Warbler) with the law in the Stricklandian Code requiring that names which have 
never been “clearly defined” should be rejected. As was to be expected from such a 
blundering description, this name of Linnzeus has been transferred from one bird te 
another by various writers until it has ceased to have a definite meaning. Motacilla 
salicaria, Linn:, apud Nilsson et Newton, is the Garden-Warbler; Motacilla salicaria, 
Linn., apud Bechstein (Orn. Taschenb.) et Meyer et Wolf, is the Aquatic Warbler; 
Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud Latham et Fleming, is the Sedge-Warbler; Motacilla 
salicaria, Linn., apud Brehm, is the Marsh-Warbler; Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud 
Bechstein (Naturg. Deutschl.), is the Reed-Warbler; Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud 
Pallas, is the Booted Warbler; and Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud Heuglin et Sharpe, 
is the Icterine Warbler. 
