Order PASSERIFORMES. Family SYLVIIDM. 
No. 525. 
CONOPOHERAS AUSTRALIS. 
REED-WARBLER. 
(Plate 442.) 
Calamoherpe australis Gould in Lewin’s Nat. Hist. Birds N.S.W. (ed. Eyton). Index to 
synonyms to plate 18, Reed-Warbler, 1838 : Parramatta, New South Wales. 
Sylvia arundinacea Lewin, Birds of New Holland, pi. xviii., 1808, not Turdus 
arundinaceus L. 
Calamoherpe australis Gould in Lewin’s Nat. Hist. Birds N.S.W. (ed. Eyton), Index, 1838 ; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I. p. 402, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; id., Tab. List. Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888. 
Calamoherpe longirostris Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1845, p. 20, April : King George’s 
Sound, West Australia. 
Nob Turdus longirostris Gmelin, Syst. Nat., Vol. I. p. 823, 1789, which = , S caffra Sparrman, the 
type of the genus. 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 403, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 186, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 10, 1888 ; Witmer Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 163, 1913. 
Acrocephalus longirostris Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxiv. (Vol. III., pi. 38), Sept. 1st, 1846; 
Higgles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xiv., 1867; Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. V., 
p. 99, 1881 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p 20, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 183, 1901. 
Acrocephalus australis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxvn., Vol. III., pi. 37, June 1st, 1847; 
Higgles, Ornith. Austr., pt. xiv., 1867; Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. V., 
p. 100, 1881 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 20, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. I., p. 181, 1901 ; Legge, Emu, Vol. I., p. 84, 1902 (Tas.) ; Hill, ib., 
Vol. II., p. 164, 1903 (Vic.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 238, 
1904; Berney, Emu, Vol. V., p. 73, 1905 (N.Q.) ; Hove, ib., Vol. VII., p. 158, 
1908 (Tas.) ; Mathews, Hand! Birds Austral., p. 73, 1908 ; Hove, Emu, Vol. VIII., 
p. 67, 1908 (Vic.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 29, 1910 ; Witmer Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pts. 6-7, p. 163, 1913; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
p. 171, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 26, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Acrocephalus gouldi Hubois, Synops. Avium, Vol. I., fasc. vi., p. 369, 1901 : new name for 
O. longirostris Gould, preoccupied ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. I., 
p, 241, 1904; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 73, 1908. 
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