1894.
March 9           
(No.5)  
Trinidad B.W.I
Muruga Rest House
  I was disappointed in the butterflies for although
we saw a few fine and striking species in the woods
here were no really large or gorgeous ones and the
common kinds either plainly colored or yellow
and so mainly like our common small yellow and cabbage
butterflies that they would not have attracted my 
attention at home. Nor were they at all numerous
individually.
  I was also unprepared for the almost total absence
of insect sounds both in the woods and fields.
  As the afternoon waned and the sun sank low
in the west the birds became more noisy and
showed themselves more freely. They were far more
numerous here than they ever are with us except
during migration and in especially favoreds places.
They are also as a rule, tamer and less suspicious
than our birds. Humming Birds are very numerous
but they are so restless and active that it was
next to impossible to get a good look at one and
I identified only two or three in all although
their buzzing was almost constantly in my ears
and [?] a minute passed when one or more
did not dart across our path. Our species at
least chirps as it flies very much in the tone
of a Mniotilta - a penetrating, wiry, zeep ing
chirp.
  We saw several Parrots flying high and swiftly 
over the forest, calling.