APPENDIX. 
— *,* While the papers, entitled ‘ a Week 
at Port Royal,” were passing through the press, Mr 
John Murphy, one of the Surgeons of the Naval 
Hospital, kindly sent me the skin of a large petrel, 
taken at the Plumb-point Light-house. Being a 
new and undescribed species of procellaria, he had 
deemed it would form an interesting addition to the 
notes I was giving to the public. Jt is not among 
the ascertained birds in Mr Gosse’s Ornithology ot 
Jamaica, but is referred to by him in communica- 
tions from myself and Mr Andrew Gregory Joha- 
ston. I shall best state what is or has been ascer - 
tained respecting this undescribed member of the 
petrel family by extracting the note I-sent to Mr 
Murphy on receiving his specimen. 
‘The bird sent to me is one of the larger petrels 
(procillariade) inhabiting the Cliffs of the Blue 
Mountains. - The procillariade have diomedea, the 
albatross, at-one extremity and thalassidroma, Mo- 
ther Carey’s chickens, at the other. Although 
the burrowing of eur birds in the Blue Mount aine 
Cliffs was particularly noticed by me in my commus 
nication to Air Gesse as something special, it is the 
habit of all the petrel-tribe, except the albatrosses. 
They erect a structure of clay and vegetable remains, 
of some height, but all the others from the fulmar’s 
and shearwaters downward (fuimarus and puffinus,) 
breed in burrows, more or less associated, remaining 
