74 srLviiD^. 



Genus CETTIA Bonaparte, Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. 

 1838, p. 11. 

 Type : C. cetti (Mann.). 

 Cettia, in honour of the Italian Jesuit zoologist, Francois Cetti (1726-1780). 



Cettia cetti. Cetti's Waeblee. 



Sylvia cetti Marmora, Mem. Accad. Torino, xxv. 1820, 

 p. 254 : Sardinia. 



Cettia cetti (Marm.) ; Seelohm, Gat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, p. 135. 

 Cettia sericea Temm. ; B. O. U. List, 1st eel. 1883, p. 22. 



Distribution in tJie British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. Twice 

 recorded from Sussex : May 1904 ; Sept. 1906. 



General Distribution. — Getti's Warbler breeds in southern 

 Europe as far north as southern France, central Italy, and 

 eastwards through the Balkan Peninsula to the Crimea and 

 Caucasus ; also in north-west Africa, Asia Minor, and Syria. 

 In south-east Russia, the Kirghiz Steppes, Turkestan, and 

 east Persia the partlj^ migratory C. c. cettioides occurs, which 

 is found in winter in Sind. 



Genus ACROCEPHALUS A^aumann, Naturg. Yog. 

 Deutschl. Nacbtr. 1804, p. 199. 

 Type : A. arundinaceus (Linn.). 



.kvyi- f.-^ -, J_crocephdlus, from aicpoe = top, and Ke^aXri = head. Perhaps Nauinann 

 a.'i^o thought (iKpos = acutus, as Agassiz (Nomen. Zool.) did ; but this is an error. 



- Acrocephalus streperus. Eeed-Warblek. 



Sylvia strepera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. 



1817, p. 182 : France. 

 Acrocephalus streiDerus {Vii-iU.) ; Seehohm, Cat. Birds B.M. v. 



1881, p. 102 ; B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 18 ; Saunders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 79. 



Strepei-us = noisy ; a late Latin adj. from strepere = to make a noise. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Summer Visitor to 

 England and Wales. Locally but widely distributed from 



