264 Bulletin of the British 



Mr. H. M, Wallis exhibited a sketch, accompanied by 

 notes from his diary, of a bird believed by him to be a 

 Diver, which he had observed sitting in an npright position. 

 In the discussion which ensued, the opinion of the ornitho- 

 logists present was, that the Divers never assumed an erect 

 attitude. Mr. Sclater said that, in the experience of Mr. A. 

 D. Bartlett, none of the many Divers which had lived in the 

 Zoological Gai^dens had ever attempted to stand upright. 

 This was confirmed by Mr. Meade-Waldo, who had also kept 

 several Divers in captivity. 



Mr. T. Parkin exhibited an egg which had been dredged 

 by a trawler in Rye Bay, Sussex (c/. ' Field,' May 26th, June 

 2nd and 9th, 1894), and was supposed to be that of the Velvet 

 Scoter, because birds of that species had recently frequented 

 those waters. Mr. Parkin stated that, after a comparison 

 of this egg with those of (Edemia fnsca in the Natural 

 History Museum, it clearly did not belong to this species, 



Mr. OsBERT Salvin sent the following descriptions of two 

 nesv species of Humming-Birds, specimens of which had 

 been obtained by Mr. O. T. Baron during his recent expedi- 

 tion to Peru : — 



DiPHLOG.ENA EVA, Sp. U. 



D. hespero proxima, sed supra rufescentiore viridi, nucha et 

 cervice postica nitente saturate rubris nee intense nigris, 

 abdomine parte postica latiore rufa et cum tectricibus 

 subcaudalibus pallidiore ; rostro quoque longiore 

 differt. 



Hab. Succha, E. Peru, January to March 1894 (O. T. Baron). 



In my paper on Mr. Bai'on's birds (Nov. Zool. ii. p. 15), I 

 referred several specimens of a Diphlogcena from Succha, with 

 doubt, to the Ecuadorean B. hesperas, Gould. None of them 

 were quite adult. Mr. Baron's recent collection contains 

 additional specimens, and amongst them one fully-adult bird 

 which has the characteristic lilac thoracic spot. 



The dark shining red colour of the nape and back of the 

 neck in the new bird is in strong contrast to the deep 

 black of these parts in D. hesperus, and, with the other minor 



