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Genus CETTIA Bonaparte, Comp. List B. Bur. & N. Amer. 



1838, p. 11. 



Type : C. cetti (Mann.). 

 Cettia, in honour of the Italian Jesuit zoologist, Fran?ois Cetti (1726-1780). 



Cettia cetti. CETTI'S WARBLER. 



Sylvia cetti Marmora, Mem. Accad. Torino, xxv. 1820, 

 p. 254 : Sardinia. 



Cettia cetti (Marm.) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. H. v. 1881, p. 135. 

 Cettia sericea Temm. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 22. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Twice 

 recorded from Sussex : May 1904 ; Sept. 1906. 



General Distribution. Cetti's Warbler breeds in southern 

 Europe as far north as southern France, central Italy, and 

 eastwards through the Balkan Peninsula to the Crimea and 

 Caucasus ; also in north-west Africa, Asia Minor, and Syria. 

 In south-east Russia, the Kirghiz Steppes, Turkestan, and 

 east Persia the partly migratory C. c. cettioides occurs, which 

 is found in winter in Sind. 



Genus ACROCEPHALUS Xauinann, Naturg. Vog. 



Deutschl. Nachtr. 1804, p. 199. 

 Type : A. arundinaceus (Linn.). 



Acroceplialus, from dicpos = top, and Ke^dA?; = head. Perhaps Naumann 

 thought cpos = aciltus, as Agassiz (Nomen. Zool.) did ; but this is an error. 



AcrocephalllS Streperus. REED- WARBLER. 



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

 1817, p. 182 : France. 



Acroceplialus streperus (Virill.} ; SeeboJnii. Cat. Birth B. JL v. 

 1881, p. 102 ; B. O. U. Lint, 1st eel. 1883, p. 18 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 79. 



Streperus = noisy ; a late Latin adj. from strep f re = to make a noise. 

 Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor to 

 England and Wales. Locally but widely distributed from 



