Kumerloeve (1961 ) lists several records of Aquatic Warbler in his avifauna 
of Asia Minor as follows: a small (but unspecified) number of observations 
from Izmir, Braun was given the species during the autumn migration 
when an example was obtained during bird-catches (presumably in the 
final years of the last century, or the first decade of the twentieth, but no 
year, date or locality supplied), while Smith mentions a 'possible' sight 
record to the west of Trabzon in June 1958 (in Smith 1960). Kumerloeve 
appears to question this. 
Most importantly, Mathey-Dupraz (1920/23) mentions a specimen held 
in the Robert's College, Istanbul (Bebek) collection. On the basis of these 
records, the species is listed for Turkey by Hollom (1971), Hollom et al 
(1988), Ertan et al (1989), Parmenter and Byers (1991) and Kasparek (in 
press). No subsequent records from Turkey have been published (Bird 
Report 1966-86, Kasparek 1990). As all of the records documented by 
Kumerloeve, with the possible exception of the specimen record, fall well 
short of today's standards, this new record is perhaps only the second 
verifiable record for Turkey. 
Acknowledgments 
I should like to thank Ruth Maier (for translation of German material) and 
Richard Porter (for comments on the species' status in Turkey) for their help in 
the preparation of this note. 
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