ACROCEPHALUS. 77 



V. 1881, p. 91 ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 20 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 85. 



Schcenobsenus = one that goes on rushes or sedges, from tr^olvos and /Bai'vu. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Summer Visitor. 

 Generally distributed on the mainland of Great Britain and 

 Ireland but uncommon in the north-west Highlands. It 

 occurs in spring and autumn as a Bird of Passage from the 

 Shetlands southwards, chiefly on the east coast, when en 

 route between its summer home in Scandinavia and north 

 Russia and its winter retreats in tropical south Africa. 



General Distribution. — The Sedge- Warbler breeds through- 

 out Europe, from about 70° N. latitude in Sweden and 68° 

 in Russia to southern Europe, with the exception of Spain 

 and Greece, where it is rare or absent ; also throughout 

 western Siberia to the Yenesei and the Altai Mountains, It 

 ^vinters in Asia Minor and Africa as far south as the Transvaal. 



Acrocephalus aquaticus. Aquatic Warbler. 



Motacilla aquatica Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, 



p. 953 : Carniola. 

 Acrocephalus aquaticus ( Gmel.) ; Seehohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 



1881, p. 89 ; B. O. TJ. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 20 ; Satmders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 87. 

 Aquaticus = found by the water. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bare Visitor to 

 England, where it has occurred in the following counties : 

 Cornwall, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, Norfolk, and Leicester- 

 shire, and has certainly bred on one or more occasions. There 

 are two records for Ireland, namely at the Bull Rock, co. 

 Cork, in the autumn of 1903 and atTuskar Rock, co. Wexford, 

 in Aug. 1913. 



General Distribution. — The Aquatic Warbler breeds in 

 central and southern Europe with the exception of the 

 south of the Balkan Peninsula, and extends as far north 

 as southern Denmark, and as far east as the Urals. It also 

 nests in north-west Africa, and probably winters further 

 south in tropical Africa. 



