BOOTED BEED WARBLER. 



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INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIIBJE. 

 Genus Acrocephalus. (Naumann.) 



BOOTED REED WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus caligata. 



Motacilla salicaria, 

 Sylvia caligata, 

 ' ' sci fa, 



" rama, 

 Iduna caligata, 

 Lusciola caligata, 

 Salicaria caligata, 

 Calamoherpe caligata, 

 Riverain bo tie, 

 Gestiefclter Rohrsanger, and 



Schmucker Rohrsanger, 



Pallas; Zoograph. Ross. Asiat., i., 



p. 492. ? Nee Linnyeus. 

 Lichtenstein ; in Eversmann's "Reise 



nach Buchara," p. 128. 

 Eversmann; Addend., iii., page 12-13; 



and in Bullet, de la Societe Imp. de 



Moscow, 1848, No. 1, p. 225. 

 Bree; first Edition. 



Muhle; Mon. der Europ.Sylvien, 1856. 

 Thienemann; Fortpflanzung, v., 199. 

 Sykes. 



Keyserling and Blasius, 1 841. 

 Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 

 Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 

 Degland, 1849. 

 Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — All the tail feathers rounded, the external one on 

 each side somewhat shortened, and edged with pale grey brown. Length 

 four inches and nine lines; wings two inches and two-fifths; tail two 

 inches; tarsi four-fifths; middle toe three-tenths without claw. 



