RIVER WARBLER. 



INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIIDM. 



Genus Locustella. ( Kaup.J 



Generic Characters. — Bill of moderate length, slender, straight, compressed, 

 barely deflected at the tip, which is slightly notched ; wings long, with the 

 first quill minute ; second nearly equal to the third, which is longest ; tail 

 moderate, rounded or graduated ; hind claw very long, much curved. 



RIVER WARBLER. 



Locustella Jluviatilis. 



Locustella Jluviatilis, 

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Sylvia Jluviatilis, 



Salicaria Jluviatilis, 



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Riverain Fluviatile, 

 Fluss Rohrsanger, 



Gould; B. of E., 1836. Bonaparte, 183! 

 Z. Gerbe; Diet., 1848. Degland, 1849. 

 Meyer and Wolff; Tasch. des Deuts., 



(1810,) tome i., p. 229. 

 Naumann, tome iii., 649. 

 Temminck; Man., (1820.) 

 Vieillot; Diet., 18 17. 

 Schinz; Europ. Faun., (1840.) 

 MtlHLE, 1856. Bree, 1st. Edition. 

 Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 

 Schlegel; Revue, 1844. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Above unicolorous olive brown, darker on the wings; 

 under tail coverts light rust grey, with white at the end; first primary the 

 longest; wings reach to half the length of the tail. Length of male sent 

 me by M. E. Verreaux, six inches; carpus to tip three inches; tail two 

 inches and one fifth; tarsus nine tenths of an inch; beak seven tenths of 

 an inch. 



