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Acrocephalus aquaticus. Aquatic Warbler. 



Motacilla aquatic a^ Gmelin, S. N. i. p. 953 (1788) . 



Sylvia cariceti, Naum. iii. p. 668. 



Sylvia aquatica^ Naum. iii. p. 686. 



Acrocephalus aquaticus, Newton, i. p. 380 ; Dresser, ii. 591. 



Calamodyta aquatica, Gould, ii. pi. 76. 



Salicaria aquatica, Harting, p. 105. 



AquSMcus = found by the water, aqiM. 



An accidental visitor to England. Breeds in temperate 

 Europe and North Africa. Winters in Africa. 



Acrocephalus phragmitis. Sedge- Warbler. 



Sylvia phragmitis, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. p. 186 



(1802) . 



Sylvia phragmitisj Naum. iii. p. 648. 



Calamoherpe phragmitis, Macg. ii. p. 390. 



Salicaria phragmitis, Hewitson, p. 117j Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 289; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 303 ; Harting, p. 14. 

 Calamodyta phragmitis. Gray, p. 43 j Gould, ii. pi. 75. 

 Acrocephalus schcenohsenus, Newton, i. p. 376 ; Dresser, ii. 



p. 597. 

 Sedge Warbler, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 265. 



Phragmitis = haunting fences, hedges, from (ppay/ia = a fence. 



This species breeds throughout Europe, and in Siberia at 

 least as far east as the Yenisei. Winters in South Africa. 



Genus LOCUSTELLA, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 115 (1829). 



Locustella, dimin. of locusta, from its cricket-like cry. 



Locustella ngevia. Grasshopper Warbler. 



Motacilla naevia, Boddaert, Table des PI. Enl. p. 35. 

 no. 581 (1783). 



Sylvia locustella, Naum. iii. p. 701. 



