18 TURDIDiE. 



Genus AEDON, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 972. 



A'edon =1) di]S(ltv, the songstress, from deiSw = l sing. The story goes that 

 Aedon was wife of Zethus, king of Thebes, and mother of Itylus, whom she slew 

 by mistake ; to relieve her grief, Zeus changed her into a Nightingale. 



Aedon galactodes. Rufous Warbler. 



Sylvia galactodes^ Temminck, Man. d'Orn. i. p. 182 



(1820). 



Sylvia galactodes, Naum. xiii. pp. 62, 398. 



Aedon galactodes, Gray, p. 46 ; Newton, i. p. 355 ; Gould, ii. 



pi. 53 ; Hurting, p. 105 ; Dresser, ii. p. 547. 

 Salicaria galactodesj Yarr. ed. 3, i. p. 314. 



Galac(ddes = ya\aicTioSri9, contracted from •ya\oKro-6i5)}s = milk-white, from 

 yd\a, gen. yaXasros, milk, and 6l^os = form. 



A rare accidental visitor to England. Breeds in South- 

 western Europe and North-western Africa. Winters in Africa. 



Genus ACROCEPHALUS, Navmann, Naturg.Yog.Deutschl. 

 Nachtr. p. 201 (1819). 



Acrocephdhis, from aKpos = highest, and Kf0aX»7 = head. Perhaps Naumann 

 thought aKpos —aciXtus, as Agassiz (Komencl. Zool.) did ; but this is an error. 



Acrocephalus Streperus. Reed- Warbler. 



Sylvia strepera^ Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat. xi. 

 p. 182 (1817). 



Sylvia arundinacea, Naum. iii. p. 614. 



Calamoherpe arundinacea, Macg. ii. p. 395 ; Gould, ii. pi. 73. 



Salicaria strepera, Heivitson, p. 119 ; Harting, p. 14. 



Calamodyta strepera, Gray, p. 44. 



Salicaria arundinacea, Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 295 ; id. ed. 3^ i. 



p. 309. 

 Acrocephalus streperus, Neivton, i. p. 369 ; Dresser, ii. p. 567. 

 Keed Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 269. 



Sfrejplruii =noisy ; a late Latin adj. from strc2)ere=:te make a noise, rattle. 



