30 CETTI'8 WARBLER. 



INSECTIVOR^E. 



Family SYLVIIBM. 



Genus Acrocephalus. ( Naumann.) 



CETTTS WAEBLER, 



Acrocephalus Cetti. 



Sylvia Cetti, Marmora; Mem. della Acad, di Torino, 



vol. xxv., p. 254. 

 " " Temminck; Man., 1820. 



" " Schinz; Europ. Faun., 1840. 



Z. Gerbe; Mag. de Zool., 1840. 

 Muhle; Monog., 1856. Bree; 1st. Ed. 

 " sericea, Natterer. 



Cettia altisonans et sericea, Ch. Bonaparte, 1838. 



Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. 

 " Cetti, Degland, 1849. 



Salicaria Cetti, Keyserling and Blasius; Der Wirbel- 



thiere, 1840. 

 " " Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 



Bee-fin Bouscarle, Bee-fin Cetti, Of the French. 

 Cetti's Rohrscinger, Of the Germans. 



Usignuolo di Fiiune, Of Cetti; in Ucc. di Sardegna. 



Specific Characters. — Upper parts of the body unicolorous rich dark chesnut 

 brown; superciliary ridge whitish, long, and narrow; the tail rounded, con- 

 sisting of only ten quills; tarsi clear brown. First primary of medium 

 length, second equal to ninth, the third shorter than the fourth, fourth 

 and fifth longest. 



Dimensions of specimens sent me by M. E. Verreaux. — Male: length from tip 

 of beak to end of tail five inches; carpus to tip two inches and a half; 

 tail two inches; beak three fifths of an inch; tarsi nine tenths of an inch. 

 Female: from tip of beak to end of tail four inches and a half; carpus to 

 tip two inches; tail one inch and three quarters; beak three fifths of an 

 inch; tarsi eight tenths of an inch. 



