1894
March 16
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  The sky was cloudy at daybreak this morning and
the Monkeys roared even louder and for a much
longer time than yesterday. After sunrise we had several
heavy showers.
  I went out early with Chapman & Hutton. We took
a track which enters the woods just beyond where we
shot the Goatsuckers and after crossing a swamp ascends
a hill and winds along the crest of a narrow ridge.
  It is said to be hundreds of years old in fact
one of the original Indian trails. The woods are
very varied and beautiful but I cannot describe
them now. Birds are very numerous and the woods
fairly rang with their calls. We were shown a tree
thickly hung with nests of Ostinops. A Parrot
alighted in this tree and I shot at but missed
it. It was probably out of range for the tree was very
tall.
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  Trogons were very numerous. In one place four
or five were flitting from tree to tree calling at short
intervals. They were of two species. One for the
cuckoo-like call, the other a succession of harder
notes which clearly resembled those of the Flicker's
"shout". I shot one of these birds, a female.
I also saw my first Mot-mot, a slender, graceful
bird. It wagged its tail from side to side
with a curious waving motion.
  Yellow-headed Manakins were flitting about and
chasing one another. The male has a bright
and by no means unmusical song.