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Show 1866.] DR. A. CARTE ON A NKW PETREL. 93 74. SCOTOPHILUS ? Plain of Acre. 75. VESPERUGO KUHLII, Kuhl. Jerusalem, Cave of Adullam, and elsewhere. 76. TAPHOZOUS NUDIVENTRIS, Riipp. In immense numbers in ravines in Galilee. 77. RHINOPOMA MICROPHYLLUM, Geoffr. Swarms in the Jordan valley and Dead-Sea basin. 78. RHINOLOPHUS FERRUM-EQUINUM, Leach. Abundant throughout the country. 79. RHINOLOPHUS CLIVOSUS, Riipp.? Near the Sea of Galilee. 80. XANTHARPYIA ^EGYPTIACA (Geoffr.). In a cave in the wady Kern, Central Palestine. 3. On an Undescribed Species of Petrel from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. By ALEXANDER CARTE, M.A., M.D. Dubl., M.R.I.A., F.L.S., &c. (Plate X.) In a collection of Jamaica birds, presented to the Natural-History Museum of the Royal Dublin Society by William Thomas March, Esq., of that island, were two specimens, male and female, of a species of Procellaria, marked " The Blue-Mountain Duck;" and as I believe no detailed account of this interesting bird has been hitherto published, I have much pleasure in forwarding to the Zoological Society of London the following description. Both sexes are similar in size and colour of plumage. PTERODROMA CARIBBiEA, n. Sp. (PI. XI.) P. capite, collo, dorso alisque fuliginoso-nigricantibus ; vertice et pogoniis extends primariarum plumarum aliquanto nigri-cantioribus ; plumis abdominis tectricibusque sub cauda aliquan-tulum paliidioribus; tectricibus super caudamplumisque circum uropygium canis vel candidulis : iridibus fuscis : rostro, tarsis, pedibus unguibusque nigris. Long. 12$ poll. Hab. Blue Mountains in insula Jamaica. |