400 BRITISH BIRDS. 



SYLVIA HORTENSIS*. 

 GARDEN-WARBLER. 



(Plate 10.) 



Ficedula curruca minor, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 374 (1760). 



? Motacilla salicaria, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 330 (1700). 



Motacilla hippolais, Lt'itn. apiul Timst. Orn. Brit. p. '2 (1771). 



:■' Motacilla borin, Bodd. Tail. PL Enl. p. 35 (178j). 



Sylvia simplex, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. i. p. 287 ( 1787). 



? Motacilla passerina, Gmel. Si/st. Nat. i.p. 954 (1788). 



SUvia hortensis (Gmel.), var. ft Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 507 (1790). 



Motacilla hortensis, Gmel. apud Bechst. Nattiry. Ileutschl. iv. p. 550, pi. xiii (l^O-j). 



Sylvia hortensis, Gmel. apud Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 109 (1802); et auctorum 

 plurimorum — Wolf, Temminck, Navmann, Jenyns, Livrsmann, ifaci/illii'nii/, 

 IKeyserling, Blasius, Nordmann, Gray, Siindevall, Lindermayer, Schlegel, lieuylin, 

 Der/land, Gerbe, Sahadon, Gurney, {Sharpe), {Gould), Shelley, Hartinij, 

 {Fleming), (Selby), {Caha?iis), (Bonaparte), (Thompson), (Loche), §-c. 



Ourrucua hortensis (Gmel.), apud Koch, Syst. haier. Zool. i. p. 155 (1816). 



Sylvia asdonia, Vieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xi. p. 162 (1817, partim). 



EpUais hortensis (Gmel.), apud Kaup, Nutiirl. Syst. p. 145 (1820). 



CLirriica brachyrhynclios, Brehtn, Vog. Deutschl. p. 416 (1831). 



Curruca grisea, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 416 (1831, nee Vieill.). 



Adoriiis hortensis (Gmel.), apud Gray, List Gen. B. p. 29 (1841). 



Sylvia salicaria (Linn.), apud Newton, ed. Yarr. Br. B. i. p. 414 (1873). 



The Garden-Warbler, so far as can be ascertained, was first described 

 by Willughby and Ray from an example which was sent to them by I\Ir. 

 Francis Jesso^j, of Broom Hall, Sheffield. Francis Jessop was one of the 

 earliest members of the Royal Society, and appears to have been well 



* Professor Newton and Mr. Dresser have done their best to cause the name of Sylvia 

 hortensis to be rejected in favour of that of Sylvia salicaria. There is considerable cir- 

 cumstantial evidence that Linnfeus intended to describe the Gardeu-^Varbler as Motacilla 

 .salicaria ; but it is impossible to understand how the authors above named can reconcile 

 the va'fue diagnosis of Linnaeus (containing, amongst others, the character " supercilia 

 alba " and the supplementary note " pedes fulvi," neither of which apply to the Garden- 

 Warbler) with the law in the Stricklandian Code requiring that names which have 

 never been " clearly defined " should be rejected. As was to be expected from such a 

 blundering description, this name of Linnfeus has been transferred from one bird tc 

 finother by various writers until it has ceased to have a definite meaning. Motacilla 

 salicaria, Linn., apud Nilsson et Newton, is the Garden- Warbler ; Motacilla salicaria, 

 Linn., apud liechstein (Orn. Tascheiib.) et Jleyer et Wolf, is the Aquatic Warbler ; 

 Motacilla -salicaria, Linn., apud Latham et Fleming, is the Sedge- Warbler ; Motacilla 

 salicaria, Linn., apud Brehm, is the Marsh- A^'arbler ; Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud 

 Bechstein (Naturg. Deutschl.), is the Reed- Warbler ; Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud 

 Pallas, is the Booted Warbler ; and Motacilla salicaria, Linn., apud Ileuglin et Sharpe, 

 is the Icterine "W^arbler. 



