18 TURDID^. 



Genus AEDON, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



Aedon =r) drjSwv, the songstress, from aei'w = I sing. The story goes that 

 Aeclon was wife of Zethus, king of Thebes, and mother of It.ylus, whom she slew 

 by mistake; to relieve her grief, Zeus changed her into a Nightingale. 



Aedon galactod.es. RUFOUS WARBLER. 



Sylvia galactodes, Temminck, Man. cTOrn. i. p. 182 



(1820). 



Sylvia galactodes, Naum. xiii. pp. 62_, 398. 



Aedon galactodes, Gray, p. 46 ; Newton, i. p. 355 ; Gould, ii. 



pi. 53 ; Harting, p. 105 ; Dresser, ii. p. 547. 

 Salicaria galactodes, Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 314. 



s, contracted from ya\aKro-ei$)]s = milk- white, from 

 yaXa, gen. yaXacros, milk, and elos = form. 



A rare accidental visitor to England. Breeds in South- 

 western Europe and North-western Africa. Winters in Africa. 



Genus ACROCEPHALUS, Naumann, Naturg.Vog.Deutschl. 

 Nachtr. p. 201 (1819). 



Acrocephdlus, from cpos = highest, and K60aX)7 = head. Perhaps Naumann 

 thought afcpos =acutus, as Agassiz (Tsornencl. Zool.) did ; but this is an error. 



AcrocephalllS Streperus. REED- WARBLER. 



Sylvia strepera, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xi. 



p. 182 (1817). 



Sylvia arundinacea, Naum. iii. p. 614. 



Calamoherpe arundinacea, Macg. ii. p. 395 ; Gould, ii. pi. 73. 



Salicaria strepera, Hewitson, p. 119 ; Harting, p. 14. 



Calamodyta strepera, Gray, p. 44. 



Salicaria arundinacea, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 295 ; id. ed. 3, i. 



p. 309. 



Acrocephalus streperus, Newton, i. p. 369 ; Dresser, ii. p. 567. 

 Reed Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 269. 



Streperus = noisy ; a late Latin adj. from strcpere**io make a noise, rattle. 



