352 BRITISH BIRDS. 



ACROCEPHALUS PHRAGMITIS *. 

 SEDGE-WARBLER. 



(Plate 10.) 



? Fioedula curnica sylvestris, Bri^s. Orn. iii. p. 393 (1760). 



? Motacilla sohoenobffinus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 329 (1766). 



Motacilla salicaria, Linn, apud Tunst. Orn. Brit. p. 2 (1771). 



Sylvia salicaria (Liym.) apud Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 287 (1787). 



F Sylvia sclicenobsenus {Linn.), Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 510 (1790). 



Sylvia phragmitia, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 186 (1802) ; et auctorum pluri- 

 morum — Wolf, Temminck, Naumann, Menetries, Jenyns, Eversmann, Nordman7i, 

 {Koch), (Bote), (Brehm), (Macr/illivrai/), (Schlegel), {Katip), (Selby), (Gould), 

 (Keyserlmg), (Blasius), (Thompson), (Lindermayer) , (Hartiny), (Bonaparte), 

 (Degland), (Gerbe), (Locke), (Salvadori), ^-c. 



Acrocephalus plaragmitis (Bechst.), Naum. Nat. Land- und Wass.- Vog. twrdl. Deutschl., 

 Nachtr. iv. p. 202 (1811). 



Muscipeta phragmitis (Bechst.), Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 163 (1816). 



Sylvia schcenobasnus (Linn.), VieUl. Faun. Franq. i. p. 224 (1820). 



Calamoherpe phragmitis (Bechst.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 



Curruca salicaria (Linn.), apud Fleming, Brit. An. p. 69 (1828). 



Calamodus phragmitia (Bechst.), Kaup, Naturl, Syst. p. 117 (1829). 



Calamoherpe tritici, Brehm, J'og. Deutschl. p. 449 (1831). 



Calamoherpe schoenobfenus (Linn.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 450 (1831). 



Salicaria phragmitis (Bechst.), Selby, Brit. Orn. i. p. 201 (1833). 



Calamodyta phragmitia (Bechst.), Bonap. Camp. List B. Eur. §• N. Amer. p. 12 

 (1838). 



Calamodyta sohoenobaenua (Linn.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 209, no. 2964 (1869). 



Acrocephalua achcBnobBenus (Linn?), Neioton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 376 (1873). 



Calamodua schoenobBenus (Linn.), Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 199 (1876). 



Although there can be no doubt that Linnseus was acquainted with the 

 Sedge- Warbler, yet his diagnoses are so vague that it is impossible to say 

 whetlier he intended to designate it by the name of MotaciUa schoenobcBnus 

 or Motacilla salicaria — -Vieillot, Sundevall, Brehm, and Newton identifying 

 it with tlie former, and Tunstall, Donovan, Latham, Leach, Forster, and 

 Fleming with the latter. The first clear definition seems to have been that of 

 Pennant, who described and figured the bird in 1766 under the name of the 



* In my opinion no posaible good can arias, and much confuaion must be caused, by 

 rejecting the name in common uae for the Sedge-Warbler, which was well defined 

 by Bechstein, in favour of the ill-defined name suppoaed to have been given to it by 

 Linnaeus. I admit that the evidence of the ' Fauna Suecica ' leaves little room for doubt 

 that LinnsBua intended to deacribe the Sedge-Warbler ; but hia description waa so meagre 

 that it met with the neglect that it deaerved. 



