1866.] dr. a. carte on a new 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 ^gyptiaca (Geoffr.). 



In a cave in the wady Kern, Central Palestine. 



3. On an Undescribed Species of Petrel from the Blue Moun- 

 tains 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 be- 

 lieve 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 caribb.*a, n. sp. (PI. XL) 



P. capite, collo, dorso alisque fuliyinoso-nigricantibus ; vertice 

 et pogoniis externis primariarum plumarum aliquanto nigri- 

 cantioribus ; plumis abdominis tectricibusque sub cauda aliquan- 

 Ivlum pullidioribiis ; tec.tricibus super caudam plumisque circum 

 uropygium canis vel candirfulis : iridibusfuscis : rostro, (arsis, 

 pedibits unguibusque nigris. 



Long. 12fpoll. 



Hub. Blue Mountains in insula Jamaica. 



