FANTAIL WARBLER. 



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INSECTIVOBJE. 

 Family SYLVIIDJE. 



Genus Acrocephalus. (Naumann.) 



FANTAIL • WARBLER. 



Acrocephalus cisticola. 



Sylvia cisticola, 



typus, 

 Cisticola schcenicola, 



Salicaria cisticola, 



Riverain Cisticole, 

 Cisten Rohrsdnger, 

 Beccamosche, 

 Cerrapunio, 



Temminck; Man., 228, 1820, 



Vieillot; Faun. Fr., p. 227. 



Savi; Ornith. Tosc, 1827. 



Schinz; Europ. Faun., 1840. 



MIjhle; Mon., 1856. Bree; 1st. Ed, 



Ruppell; Neue Wirb. Vogel, p. 113, 



Bonaparte, 1838. 



Durazzo; Ucelli Liguri, 1840. 



Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. 



Degland, 1849. 



Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 



Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 



Of the French. 



Of the Germans. 



Of Savi. 



At Gibraltar, (Savile Reid.) 



Specific Characters. — The fan-shaped tail grey brown, each tail feather 

 tipped with white, and with a black spot near the extremity of each; no 

 white band over the eyes; beak curved downwards. Length of a specimen 

 sent me by M. E. Verreaux, three inches and four fifths; from carpus to 

 tip two inches and one fifth; tail one inch and three quarters; tarsus nine 

 tenths of an inch; beak, from gape, three fifths of an inch. 



This pretty little Warbler, the smallest of the European Eeed 

 Warblers, is at once distinguished from all others by its curved beak 

 and fan-shaped black and white tipped tail. It was first described 



