BIRDS OF EUROPE. 



NOT OBSERVED IN THE BRITISH ISLES. 



INSECTIVOR.E. 



Family SYLVIID^E. 



Genus Acrocephalus. ( Naumann.J 



Generic Characters. — Bill more or less straight, with the upper mandible 

 elevated, wider at the base, compressed towards the tip, and slightly emar- 

 ginated; edges of lower mandible inflected. Nostrils basal, oblique, oval, 

 and exposed. First primary obsolete, second generally shorter than the 

 third, which is usually the longest. Tail rounded and rather long. Legs 

 long; feet ample — -hind toe strong; claws long and moderately curved. 



MARSH WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus palustris. 



Sylvia palustris, 



strip era, 

 Galamoherpe palustris, 



Bechstein; Nat. Deut., 1801. 



Meyer and Wolff; Tach. der Deuts., 18 10. 



Naumann ; Natur. der Vogel Deut. 



Temminck; Man., 1820. 



Vieillot ; Faun. Fran. 



Schinz ; Europ. Faun., 1840. 



MitHLE; 1856. 



Bree; 1 st. Edition. 



Vieillot; Diet., 1 817, tome xi., p. 182.? 



Boie ; Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



Bonaparte; Birds, 1838. 



Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. 



Degland ; 1849. 



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