464 NOVITATES ZOOLOGIOAE XXVII. 1920. 



584. Tatare familiaris Rothsch. = Acrocephalus familiaris. 

 Tatare familiaris BothBchild, Ann. & Mag, Nat. Hist. (6), x. p. 109 (1892 — ^Laysan Island). 

 Type : ^ ad., Laysan Island, 18. vi. 1891. H. C. Palmer leg. No. 1,092. 



585. Acrocephalus arundinaceus zarudnyi Hart. = Acrocephalus arundinaceus 



zarudnyi. 



Acrocephalus arundinaceus zarudnyi Hartert, Bull. B.O. CM), xxi. p. 26 {1907 — Turkestan, terra 

 typica Bjarkent) ; Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 658. 



Tjrpe : (J ad., Djarkent, Turkestan, 21 . iv. 1900 (Russian date). N. Zarudny 

 leg. No. 1,566. 



(?) 586. Calamoherpe griseldis Hartl. == Acrocephalus arundinaceus griseMis. 

 Calamoherpe griseldis Hartlaub, Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen, xii. p. 7 (1891 — Nguru). 



Type : Nguru, Emin Pasha leg. Received from Hartlaub. 



Sharpe {Hand-list, iv. p. 206) places this bird in the genus Calamocichla, but 

 it is nothing than a very small Acrocephalus arundinaceus ! It might be a 

 dwarf of the latter. The wing measures only 85 mm. Or it might be a small 

 subspecies of the Great Reed- Warbler, either breeding in tropical Africa or 

 wintering there as a visitor from somewhere in the palaearctic fauna. 



587. Calamocichla cunenensis Hart. = Calamocichla cunenensis. 

 Calamocichla cunenensis Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xiii. p. 62 (1903 — Ciinene River, S.W. Africa). 



Type : Cunene River (probably south of), 3.iv. 1880. A. W. Ariksson leg. 



The species of Calamocichla are Reed- Warblers closely allied to Acrocephalus, 

 but with a more rounded wing, the first primary being much longer, the second 

 shorter, and resident, non-migratory, in Tropical Africa. Neumann gave an 

 excellent review of the genus in Novitates Zoologicae, 1908, pp. 244-262. In 

 the Hand-list Sharpe has at last placed Calamocichla and Acrocephalus in the 

 same family, while in the Cat. B. they were in different volumes ! 



588. Calamocichla zuluensis Neum. = Calamocichla leptorhyncha zuluensis. 



Calamocichla zuluensis Neumann, BuU. B.O. Club, xxi. (not xx. !) p. 96 (1908 — Zululand and South 

 Mozambique) ; Nov. Zool, 1908. p. 248. 



Type : Ad. Eschowe, Zululand. Woodward Bros. leg. 



This form requires further confirmation and can only be a subspecies of 

 leptorhyncha. Neumann was certainly wrong in uniting the Upper Shir6 

 specimen with leptorhyncha, as it agrees perfectly with the type of zuluensis. 

 C. gracilirostris is a much larger bird. 



589. Calamocichla ansorgei Hart. = Calamocichla ansorgei ansorgei. 

 CakmodcMa ansorgei Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xvi. p. 62 (1906— Duque de Braganza, N. Angola). 

 Type : ^ ad., Duque de Braganza, 2 . viii . 1903. W. J. Ansorge leg. No. 850. 



