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ACROCEPHALUS DUMETORUM 



138. Acrocephalus dumetorum Blyth BLYTH'S REED- 

 WARBLER. 



ACROCEPHALUS DUMETORUM Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xvin, p. 815 

 (1849 New name for the Sylvia montana or Acrocephalus montanus of 

 Indian authors, which had been erroneously identified with Horsfield's 

 Sylvia montana India). 



Acrocephalus dumetorum Blyth, W. E. Clarke, Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1911, 

 p. 70 ; cf. Brit. B., iv, p. 362. 



DISTRIBUTION. Scotland. One Fair Isle, Sept., 1910 (ut supra). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Central Asia from Himalayas north- 

 ward, east to Transcaspia, Altai, Turkestan, west Siberia, and 

 parts of European Russia. Winters in India, south to Ceylon. 



ACROCEPHALUS SCHCENOB^NUS 



139. Acrocephalus schcenobaenus (L.) THE SEDGE- 

 WARBLER. 



MOTACILLA SCHCENOB^NUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 184 (1758 



" Habitat in Europa." Restricted typical locality : S. Sweden). 



Acrocephalus phragmitis, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B., i, p. 352 ; also older 



authors. 



Acrocephalus schcenobcenus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, i, p. 376 ; Saunders, 



p. 85. 



DISTRIBUTION. England, Wales, and Ireland. Summer-resident 

 (late April to late Sept). Generally distributed. Occasionally 

 occurs in Oct. (probably on passage) and exceptionally in winter. 

 Scotland. Generally distributed, but rarer in north, and very rare 

 north-west ; scarce Orkneys ; unknown Shetlands, but of double 

 passage Fair Isle ; scarce breeder in some I. Hebrides, but absent 

 from others ; very rare vagrant 0. Hebrides (Barra). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. From about lat. 70 north in Sweden, 

 the Murman Coast and Archangel, Ob and Yenisei throughout 

 north Siberia and Altai Mountains, Russia and Europe, but rare or 

 absent from Spain and Greece, wintering in Asia Minor and Africa. 



ACROCEPHALUS AQUATICUS 



140. Acrocephalus aquaticus (Gm.) - - THE AQUATIC 

 WARBLER. 



MOTACILLA AQUATICA Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, ii, p. 953 (1789 No locality 

 given. Ex Scopoli, who described birds from Carniola or Venetia). 

 Acrocephalus aquaticus (J. F. Gmelin), Yarrell, i, p. 380 ; Saunders, p. 87. 



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