1894
March 12
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Chaguanas & Caparo
  We left Mr. Warner's delightful home at 9.30
and took the 10.20a.m. train for Chaguanas when
Mr. Carr and Mr. Wrick met us. They had a cart for
the luggage, a mule for Chapman, and a small, quiet
and very easy-gaited horse for me but they were
obliged to walk most of the way - a distance of
eight miles.
  The road is straight, wide, level and more a downward
for the first five or six miles. It is bordered on
both sides for most of the way by extensive groves
cacao but as we approached Caparo we passed
several large tracts of "high woods" as the primeval
forest is here called. Birds were exceedingly abundant
in places, in others apparently very scarce but this
may have been due to the fact that it was the
hot hour of the day and very hot at that for there
was no breeze and the sun burned like fire.

  I saw nothing of peculiar interest except a pair
of Pygmy Owls sitting low down in a leafless tree,
one above the other, very erect and still.

  Trogons were really numerous in many places. I
heard the calls of two different species.  That of one is
practically identical with the cuc-cuc-cuc-cuc
of Coccyzus erythropthalmus, that of the other is more
like the shout of Colaptes. I saw only one bird.
It sat almost bolt upright on a large branch
and moved only its head slightly.