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the southern counties, except those of the extreme west, 

 northwards to Lancashire and Yorkshire. A Rare Visitor to 

 Scotland in autumn, at Fair Isle, Shetlands, and Auskerry, 

 Orkneys, and in Ireland at the Rockabill Light, co. Dublin, 

 the Codling Bank Light- Vessel off co. Wicklow, and the 

 Tuskar Rock, co. Wexford. 



General Distribution. The Reed- Warbler breeds through- 

 out Europe, from southern Sweden and the Russian Baltic 

 Provinces to the Mediterranean and north-west Africa. 

 It winters in Africa. From the lower Volga to Turkestan 

 A. s. macronyx has been recognised. 



Acrocephalus dumetorum. BLYTH'S REED- 

 WAEBLER. 



Acrocephalus dumetorum Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 

 xviii. 1849, p. 815 : near Calcutta. 



Acrocephalus dumetorum Blytk Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 



1881, p. 104 ; Clarke, Ann. Scottish N. H. 1911, p. 70. 

 Dumetorum=o{ thickets. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred in Sept. & Oct. 1910 and 1912 at Fair Isle, Shet- 

 lands, and in Holy Isle, Northumberland, and Holderness, 

 Yorkshire, in Sept. 1912. 



General Distribution. Blyth's Reed-Warbler breeds in 

 parts of European Russia, west Siberia, and central Asia, east 

 to the Altai Mountains and south to the Himalaya, It 

 winters in India, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Acrocephalus palustris. MARSH- WARBLER. 



Sylvia palustris Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. 1803, p. 186 : 



Germany. 



Acrocephalus palustris (Bechst.) ; Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. JtT. v. 

 1881, p. 101 ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 19 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 81. 

 Palustris = of a marsh. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor very 

 locally distributed. Nests in Somersetshire, Gloucestershire, 



