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 AQUATIC WARBLER. 



Calamodyta aquatica, Gould, Birds of Great Britain, vol. ii, 2 pp, pi. 76 

 (coloured figures of adults), 1871. 



Acrocephalus aquaticus, Yarrell, British Birds, 4th Ed., edited by Newton, 

 vol. i, pp. 380-383 (woodcut), 1873 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, vol. ii, 

 pp. 591-596, pi. 89 (coloured figures of adult and young), 1876 ; 

 Seebohm, British Birds, vol. i, pp. 357-360, pi. 10, fig. 18 (egg), 

 1883 ; Lilford, Coloured Figures, vol. iii, p. 42, pi. 21 (coloured 

 figure of adult), 1888; Saunders, Manual of British Birds, 2nd Ed., 

 pp. 87-88 (woodcut), 1898. 



Danish, Vandsanger ; French, Bee-fin aauatique ; German, Seggen 

 Bohr sanger ; Hungarian, Csihosfejii nddiposzata ; Italian, Pagliarola ; 

 Norwegian, Starr sari gar en ; Polish, Gajoivka wodniezha; Eussian, Karnys- 

 chewka ivertljaivaja ; Spanish, Arandillo. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE PLUMAGE. 



Adult Male in Spring.— The upper parts are yellowish 

 buff, each feather having a blackish broad centre spot which 

 gives the bird, when the plumage is in perfect order, a striped 

 appearance. The yellowish buff is richer and brighter on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts where the spots are narrower. On 

 the back two lighter stripes are formed by the whitish edges 

 of the outer back feathers. The forehead is almost orange 

 buff, and a light buff stripe, very distinct, runs down the 

 centre of the crown bordered on each side by a broad black 

 line with narrow buff edges. A whitish buff superciliary 

 stripe is very conspicuous, the lores are greyish buff, sides 

 of the head buff, and the uppermost ear-coverts blackish, 

 forming a streak behind the eye. The least wing-coverts 

 are brownish buff, the greater wing-coverts blackish, broadly 

 edged with yellowish buff, and the bastard wing blackish. 

 The primaries and their coverts are lavender brown tipped 



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