1894
March 10
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Moruga Rest House
fall in slight undulations and were in this
course. Next a larger Parrot shoots across the
space of open sky, his wings looking broad and
bat-like and cutting down deep at every stroke.
  The second is of a creek of shallow, clay-colored
water winding between steep and often overhanging
banks through a cacao grove. From some drift
word lodged at the head of a pool a long,
slender, bleached branch projects upward and on
its extreme and full in the beams of the 
rising sun, glittering like a big emerald, sits
a tropical Kingfisher (Ceryle cabanisi) his bill
pointing down and his gaze fixed on the water
beneath. I stand for a minute on two within
ten yards of him. Then he takes flight in
silence and [delete]moving[/delete] disappears around the next
bend. Humming birds are buzzing all around us
and a Honey Creeper is singing directly overhead.
[margin]A tropical
Kingfisher[/margin]
  The third is of a huge ceiba which stands
not far from the road & first outside the forest, 
It is bathed in strong sunlight and its foliage
is agitated here and there by the movements
of a number of larger birds of a dark, rich
maroon brown [delete]apparently[/delete], with much yellow in the
tail. They are Caciques (Ostinops). One of the
females is at work on the framework of a
nest which hangs suspended, precisely like an
Oriole's nest at the end of a leafy branch. the males
are apparently engaged in feeding among the
[margin]Ostinops[/margin]