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PASSERES. 
Sylvia, phragmitis, Bechst. (et auctt. pi.) Strickl. P. Z. S. 1836, 
p. 98. 
a £ Oxfordshire (W. G. Strickland) 10 May 1834. — b Wor- 
cestershire ( Robinson ) 1840. — c France ( Kinberg ). 
Seen at Smyrna by Strickland in December. 
250. Acrocephalus nsevius. 
Fauvette tachetee, D’Aubent. PI. Enl. 581, f. 3, undl 
Motacilla ncevia, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 35. 
Sylvia locusteila , Lath, et auctt. plurr. 
Acroceplialus ncevius, Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 384. 
Locusteila rayi, Gould, B. Eur. 
a Worcestershire ( H . E. Strickland) 5 May, 1837. 
In his commentary on Gray’s Genera of Birds (Ann. & Mag. N. 
H. vi. p. 421, and viii. p. 371), Strickland advocated the use of 
Gould’s name Locusteila rayi for this bird as being the oldest known 
to him. Gray’s proposal to adopt L. avicula from Bay he shews to 
he inadmissible. 
251. Acrocephalus certhiola. 
Motacilla certhiola , Pall. Zoogr. Bosso-As. i. p. 509. 
Locusteila rubescens, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 582 : Jerd. B. 
Ind. ii. p. 160. 
a India (E. Blyth) 1851. — b Bengal (“ Locusteila rubescens” 
E. Blyth) 1851. 
SUB-FAMILY. — DBYMCECIISLE. 
Orthotomus. 
Orthotomus, Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 165 (1820). 
252. Orthotomus longicauda. 
Motacilla longicauda, Gm. Sys. Nat. i. p. 954. 
Orthotomus longicauda, Strickl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 
35 : Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 165. 
a India? ( Arthur Strickland) 1840. —~b, — c India (“ O. Ion - 
