REED WARBLER. 295 
INSESSORES. SYLVIAD/E. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
THE REED WARBLER. 
Salicaria arundinacea. 
Sylvia arundinacea, Reed Warbler, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 520. 
Motacilla as >> Wren, Montacu, Ornith. Dict. 
Sylvia & Night Warbler, Brwick. Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 254. 
Curruca ms Reed en Friem. Brit. An. p. 69. 
Salicaria MS » Wren, Sevsy, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 203. 
Sylvia s 5 Be Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 107. 
Salicaria 55 of $ Goutp, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 
Sylvia 55 Bec-fin des roscaux, TEMM. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 191. 
Tur Reep Wareter appears to have been first made 
known as a British Bird by the Rev. John Lightfoot, who, 
in a communication to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., which was 
read at the Royal Society, and printed in the volume of 
Transactions for the year 1785, has well described the 
