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2. SlJTHORA RIPPONI, n. Sp. 



Similis S. craddocki, sed linea superciliari nigra et plaga 

 auriculari cinerea distinguenda. Long. tot. 4*4 poll., 

 alae P9, caudse 2'25, tarsi 0*75. 

 Hab. Mount Victoria, S. Chin Hills, April 11, 1904 {Col. 



G. Ri]jpon). 



Dr. Sharpe also described a new species of Nemosia from 

 Paraguay, which he called : — 



Nemosia fosteri, n. sp. 

 S • Similis N. guira, sed viridescentior, fronte et supercilio 

 lato lsete flavis : plaga aurantiaca prsepectorali in medio 

 abdomine extensa. 

 Hab. Sapucay, Paraguay, March 31, 1904 (W. Foster). 

 Type in Brit. Mus. 



Mr. Collingwood Ingram exhibited an egg of the Marsh- 

 Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris), taken by himself in East 

 Kent on the 23rd of June. The nest contained five partly 

 incubated eggs, the remaining four of which had since 

 been hatched. This was believed to be the first authentic 

 instance of the breeding of this species in Kent. The nest 

 was placed on the shoots of a young ash-tree, about three 

 feet from the ground, and was well concealed among nettles 

 and other rank herbage. Externally it was composed entirely 

 of dried grass-stalks and lined with horse-hair and cocoanut 

 fibres, the latter being procured from an adjacent hop- 

 garden. 



Mr. Ingram also called attention to the small rufous-brown 

 nasal plumes at the base of the upper mandible in two 

 specimens of Parus montanus which he had procured at Tenda 

 in the Italian Maritime Alps. 



Dr. Sharpe, on behalf of Colonel Eippon, exhibited 

 specimens of the following new species : — 



Babax yunnanensis, n. sp. 

 Similis B. lanceolato, sed macula ad basin rostri posita cas- 

 tanea, nee nigra distinguendus. Long. tot. circa 103 

 poll., culm. PI, also 3*6, caudse 4 - 35, tarsi P35. 



