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THE AQUATIC WARBLER. 
ACROCEPHALUS aguATicus (J. F. Gmelin). 
Owing to the similarity of the Aquatic Warbler to the preceding 
species, all the earlier examples obtained in England appear to 
have been originally overlooked. Professor Newton was the first 
to recognize a specimen in the collection of Mr. W. Borrer, who said 
that it had been shot on October 19th 1853, while creeping about 
among the grass and reeds in an old brick-pit near Hove, Sussex. 
This example having been exhibited before the Zoological Society 
(P. Z. S. 1866, p. 210), it was subsequently examined by Mr. Harting, 
who announced (Ibis 1867, p. 469) that he also possessed an Aquatic 
Warbler, obtained near Loughborough, in Leicestershire, in the 
summer of 1864, and forwarded to him by a friend, under the 
impression that it was a Grasshopper-Warbler. In February 1871, 
Mr. J. H. Gurney detected in the Museum at Dover a third example, 
which the Curator, the late Mr. C. Gordon, stated that he had shot 
near that town. Mr. Gurney has further pointed out that the bird 
figured as a Sedge-Warbler in Hunt’s ‘British Ornithology’ was 
undoubtedly an Aquatic Warbler, in all probability obtained in 
Norfolk about the year 1815. Lastly, an example was shot at 
Blakeney, Norfolk, on September 8th 1896. The conspicuous buff 
