1894
March 14
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  The big tree toads made a deafening clamor during the
whole night and I also heard the cheero[?] of Nyctidromus
and the foot of the owl that calls ho; ho; ho; hoa besides
the cat like cry of the owl heard at the Rest House.

  At day break this morning the Carrs called me to
hear the Howling Monkeys. I tore a blanket from the
bed, thrust my feet into a pair of slippers and
rushed out. The east was flushing with rose and salmon
[?] but the little clearing about the house was still filled with
the soft, dewy twilight. Our House Wren had just begun
singing but none of the other birds about the clearing
were as yet astir. No sooner had I got fairly out into
the open air than I heard the Monkeys in the
distance to the eastward. Induced for nearly half an hour
they kept up an incessant roaring. Carr said that they
were about two miles off and that not more than
four or five were roaring. I should have supposed
that they were within a quarter of a mile and that
there were several hundreds of them. The sound
was wholly unlike what I had supposed. It was
almost exactly like the distant, muffed roar of
a great city-[?] for example - heard from some
quiet spot. It rose and fell but never wholly died
among until just before it ceased altogether.
[margin]Monkeys
roaring[/margin]
  As the daylight grew Parrots in pairs and three or
four together began flying about always at a height of
one or two hundred yards. Occasionally a Tinamou
[delete]swifts[/delete]called. The Pitongers[?] was one of the earliest
birds. The Tanagers and Humming birds did not
appear until the sun rose above the woods.