AQUATIC WARBLER. 357 



ACROCEPHALUS AQUATICUS. 



AQUATIC WARBLER. 

 (PLATE 10.) 



'via schoenobaenus (Linn.), apud Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Xat. p. 158 (1769). 

 r Motacilla aquatica, Gmel. Syst. Nat. \. p. 953 (1788, ex Scop, et Lath.). 



Ivia aquatica (Gmel.), Lath. Ltd. Orn. ii. p. 510 (1790). 

 Sylvia salicaria (Linn.), apud Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 185 (1802). 

 Acrocephalus salicarius (Linn.'), apudXaum. Nat. Land- u. Wats.- Tog. norcU. Deutichl., 



Xachtr. Heft iv. p. 203 (1811). 

 Sylvia aquatica (Gmel.), Temm. Man. <TOrn. p. 131 (1815); et auctorum pluri- 



xnorum (Xaunmnn), (Gould), (Gray), (Schltget), (Salvadori), (Xeicto 



(Drefatr). S~c. 



Muscipeta salicaria (Li>in.), apud Koch, Syst. baitr. Zool. i. p. 164 (1816). 

 Sylvia paludieola. Vieill. X. Diet. d'Hist. Xat. xi. p. 202 (1817). 

 . Sylvia cariceti, Xaum. 1st'*, 1821, p. 785. 



Calamoherpe aquatica (Gmel.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 



Calamoherpe cariceti (Xaum.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 5-52. 



Calamodyta aquatica (Gmd.), Kaup. Natiirl. Syst. p. 118 (1829). 



Calamoherpe limicola, Brehm. Vog. Deutschl. p. 451 (1831). 



Calamoherpe striata, Brehm. 1'ikj. Deukchl. p. 452 (1831). 



Salicaria aquatica (Gmel.), Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. iii. fig. 2 (1837). 



Calamodyta cariceti (Xenon.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. 8f N. Atner. p. 12 (1838). 



Calamodus salicarius (Linn.), apud Cab. J/HS. Hein. i. p. 39 (1850). 



Acrocephalus aquaticus (Gmel.), Xetrton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 380 (1873). 



As long ago as 18.2.2 the Aquatic AVarbler must have been known to 

 British ornithologists; for Mr. J. H. Gurney,jun., has pointed out ('Trans. 

 Norfolk and Norwich Xat. Soc.' 1871, p. 62) that the figure of the "Sedge- 

 Warbler " in Hunt's ' British Ornithology ' was evidently taken from an. 

 example of the present species. At least three other specimens have been 

 recorded as British. Professor Xewton discovered an example in the 

 collection of Mr. Borrer, and exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society (' Proc. Zool. Soc.' 1866, p. 210), with the following note from its 

 possessor : " My specimen was shot on the 19th of October, 1853, in an 

 old brick-pit a little to the west of Hove, near Brighton, and was stuffed 

 by Mr. H. Pratt of that place. I saw it just after it was skinned. It was 

 observed creeping about amongst the old grass and reeds." In 1867 

 Mr. Harting recorded the second example simultaneously in the 'Zoologist' 

 (p. 946) and ' The Ibis ' (p. 468). It was obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Loughborough, Leicestershire, during the summer of 1864. The third 

 example waS recorded in the 'Zoologist' for 1871 (p. 2521) by Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., who detected it amongst a collection of British birds in the 

 Dover Museum. Mr. Cordon, the curator, informed Mr. Gurney that it 



