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Acrocephalus aquations. AQUATIC WARBLER. 



Motacilla aquatic a, Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 953 (1788). 

 Sylvia cariceti, Naum. iii. p. 668. 

 Sylvia aquatica, Naum. iii. p. 686. 



Acrocephalus aquaticus, Newton, i. p. 380 ; Dresser, ii. 591. 

 Calamodyta aquatica, Gould, ii. pi. 76. 

 Salicaria aquatica, Harting, p. 105. 



Aquaticus = found by the water, aqua. 



An accidental visitor to England. Breeds in temperate 



Europe and North Africa. Winters in Africa. 



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Acrocephalus phragmitis. SEDGE- WARBLER. 



Sylvia phragmitis, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. p. 186 



(1802). 



Sylvia phragmitis, Naum. iii. p. 648. 



Calamoherpe phragmitis, Macg. ii. p. 390. 



Salicaria phragmitis, Hewitson, p. 117; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 289 ; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 303 ; Harting, p. 14. 

 Calamodyta phragmitis, Gray } p. 43 ; Gould, ii. pi. 75 . 

 Acrocephalus schcenobsenus, Newton, i. p. 376 ; Dresser, ii. 



p. 597. 

 Sedge Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 265. 



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Phragmitis = haunting fences, hedges, from Qpdypa = a fence. 



This species breeds throughout Europe, and in Siberia at 

 least as far east as the Yenisei. Winters in South Africa. 



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Genus LOCUSTELLA, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 115 (1829) 



Locustella, dimin. of locusta, from its cricket-like cry. 



Locustella naevia. GRASSHOPPER WARBLER. 



Motacilla naevia, Boddaert, Table des PL Enl. p. 35 



no. 581 (1783). 

 Sylvia locustella, Naum. iii. p. 701. 





