Old World Warblers (Sylviidae)

Tahiti Reed-warbler (Acrocephalus caffer) - HBW 11, p. 629

French: Rousserolle à long bec German: Langschnabel-Rohrsänger Spanish: Carricero de Tahití
Other common names: Long-billed Warbler/Reed-warbler, Tahitian Warbler, Komako

Taxonomy: Sitta caffra Sparrman, 1786, Tahiti.
Has sometimes been regarded as conspecific with A. atyphus and A. mendanae, but there are obvious morphological and behavioural differences separating the three. Races garretti, known only from Huahine (in Leeward Group of Society Is), and longirostris, from Moorea (in Windward Group of Society Is), are extinct. One extant subspecies recognized.

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