1894
March 12
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  We reached Mr. Carr's country house at Caparo a
little before sunset. The house is in a small opening
surrounded on every side by cacao groves with
a small, muddy  river winding between steep, high,
clayey banks just behind the trees which shut
out the view to the eastward. Beyond this river
the land rises in a steep ridge covered with primeval
forest.
  After tea we walked to the river to see a "robin roost"
but the birds (Merula gymnophthalina) did not put
in an appearance although Mr. Carr saw hundreds the
last time he visited the place - a dense thicket
of plantains and bananas on the bank of the river.
We saw nothing but a small Heron (Ardea cyanura)
which in flight and note exactly resembled our
A. viriscens.

  No Tinamous called this evening but I heard one
about midnight. During the three or four hours
which we spent sitting on the piazza before going
to bed, we heard only two birds, both Owls, one
the bird (Megascops) which calls "cook-er-re-coo",
the other a large Owl (according to Mr. Carr)
which made a very cat-like sound.
  There were two tree toads calling at once. The sound
to-night reminded me most of escaping steam.
There were also four or five frogs like the one
which I heard at Princestown last night.