INSECTIVOUyE. 
Famihj SYJjVIAFJF. 
Gcnns Sylvia. ( Latham.) 
BOOTED REED WARBLER. 
Sylvia scita. 
Motacilla salicaria, 
Sylvia call gala, 
“ scita, 
a 
Lusciola caligata, 
Salicaria caligata, 
Calamorplie caligata, 
Hiverain hotte, 
Gestiefelter RoJirsanger, and 
SclimucTcer Rolirsdnger, 
Pallas; Zoograpli. ross. Asiat., i., 
p. 492. 
LicnTENSTEiN; ill Eversmanii’s 
“Pcise nacli Biicliara,” p. 128. 
Eveesmann; Addend., iii') page 
12-13; and in Bullel. de la 
Societe Imp. de Moscow, 1848, 
No. 1, p. 225. 
AIuhle; Monograph der Europ. 
Sylvien, 1856. 
Thienemann; Fortpflanzung, 
V., 199. 
Keyserling and Blasius, 1840. 
ScHLEGEL; Pevue, 1844. 
Degland; 1849. 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Specific Characters. — The tarsi in front furnished with four 
scales, occupying two thirds of the whole length; the first and last 
