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arundinaceus of Linnaeus was, however, founded on 

 Klein's Turdus musicus palustris, which undoubtedly 

 refers to the Great Reed-AVarbler, and there can be no 

 objection to the name, which is the oldest and has 

 always been more or less in use. 



Acrocephalus schcenobsenus. Though Linnaeus' description of 

 the Sedge-Warbler is far from good, there can be no 

 doubt as to the bird which he intended to describe, and 

 we may therefore accept his name, which of course ante- 

 dates by many years that of Bechstein, Sylvia phragmitig, 

 published in 1802 and used in the 1st edition of the List. 



Genus LUSCINIOLA. Type by original designation of Gray: 

 L. melanopogoii (Temm.). 



Genus HYPOLAIS. Type by monotypy : H. icterina (Vieill.) . 



Genus PHYLLOSCOPUS. Type by monotypy : P. trocUlus 

 (Linn.). 



Phylloscopus collybita. Bechstein's name, used by both 

 Seebohm and Saunders, and also in the 1st edition of 

 the List, really dates from his Gem. naturg. Deutsch. iv. 

 1795, p. 682, and is not an original description, but is 

 founded on Gmelin's Motacilla rufa. This is not a 

 Phylloscopus, and the name cannot be used for the 

 Chiffchaff . The earliest certain name is that used here. 

 Sylvia collybita Vieillot, 1817. 



Genus TURDUS. Type by subsequent designation of Gray 

 (List Gen. Bds. 1st ed. 1840, p. 27) : T. visdrorus Linn. 



Turdus musicus. As was first pointed out by Hartert (Bull. 

 B. 0. G. xxiii. 1909, p. 54), Linnaeus' description of 

 T. musicus in the 10th edition of the Syst. Nat. 

 undoubtedly applies to the Redwing and not to the 

 Song-Thrush. In the 12th edition, however, the name 

 Turdus musicus applies to the Song-Thrush, and all 

 subsequent authors from Linna3us' time until 1909 have 

 used this name. As considerable confusion would arise 

 by using the name Turdus musicus for the Redwing, 

 the Committee consider that this is a case where the 



