AQUATIC WARBLER. 357 



ACROCEPIIALUS AQUxVTICUS. 



AQUATIC WARBLER. 



(Plate 10.) 



? Sylvia schoenobsenus (Linn.), apud Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 158 (1769). 



.P Motacilla ac[uatica, Omel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 050 (17t;8, ex Scop, et Lath.). 



? Sylvia aqiiatica (Gme!.), Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 510 (1790). 



Sylvia salicaria (Linn.), apud Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 185 (180:2). 



Acrocephalua salicarius (Linn.), aptid Nauin. Nat. Land- ii. Wass.- Vog. nijrdl. Deutschl., 



Nachtr. Heft iv. p. 203 (1811). 

 Sylvia aquatica {Gmel.), Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 1.31 (1815); et auctorum pluri- 



morum — (Naamann), (^Ooiild), (Orai/), {^Schlcyel), (Salvadori), (^Newto 



(Dresser), life. 

 Muscipeta salicaria (Linn.), apud Koch, Syst. haier. Zuol. i. p. 104 (1816). 

 Sylvia paludicola, Vieill. X. Bid. d'Hist. Nat.xi. p. 202 (1817). 

 Sylvia cariceti, Nainn. Isis, 1821, p. 78-j. 

 Calamoherpe aquatica ((--finel.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. •5.")2, 

 Calamoherpe cariceti (Naum.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 552. 

 Calamodyta aquatica {Gntel.), Kaup. Natiii-l. Syst. p. 118 (1829). 

 Calamoherpe limicola, Brehm, ^'lijj- DeiifscJd. p. 451 (1831). 

 Calamoherpe striata, Brehm, Viiy. Drnischl. p. 452 (1831). 

 Stilicaria aquatica {Omel.), Oould, B. Ear. ii. pi. iii. fig. 2 (1837). 

 Calamodyta cariceti (Xavm.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. 8,- X. Amer. p. 12 (1838). 

 Calamodus salicarius (Linn.), apud Cub. Mii.i. lleiu. i. p. 30 (1850). 

 Acrocephalus aquaticus (Gmel.), Xetrtvn, ed. I'arr. Brit. B. i. p. 380 (1873). 



As long ago as 1822 the Aquatic Warbler must have been known to 

 British ornithologists; for Mr. J. H. Gurney^jun., has pointed out ('Trans. 

 Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc' 1871, p. 62) that the figure o£ the "Sedge- 

 Warbler " in Hunt^s ' British Ornithology ' was evidently taken from an 

 example of the present species. At least three other specimens have been 

 recorded as British. Professor Newton discovered an example in the 

 collection of Mr. Borrer, and exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society ('Proc. Zool. Soc' 1866, p. 210), with the following note from its 

 possessor : — "My specimen was shot on the 19th of October, 1853, in an 

 old brick-pit a little to the west of Hove, near Brighton, and was stuflTed 

 by Mr. H. Pratt of that place. I saw it just after it was skinned. It was 

 observed creeping about amongst the old grass and reeds." In 1867 

 Mr. Harting recorded the second example simultaneously in the "^ Zoologist^ 

 (p. 946) and 'The Ibis' (p. 468). It was obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Loughborough, Leicestershire, during the summer of 1864. The third 

 example was recorded in the ' Zoologist •" for 1871 (p. 2521) by Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., who detected it amongst a collection of British birds in the 

 Dover Museum. Mr. Cordon, the curator, informed Mr. Gurney that it 



