1894
March 17
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  Early this morning Chapman and I started
off together - for the first time since we have been
here. We took the same path as yesterday but
went much further in - to a balata tree where
Chapman & Hutton set a number of traps yesterday.
The path follows a ridge the entire distance after
it leaves the swamp and the woods are very
varied and beautiful.
  Small birds are numerous. I had bad luck in
shooting but got a few interesting things among
them a boat-billed Flycatcher (Platyrhynchus insularis)
which was flitting about among the shrubbery uttering
a sharp cry, a fine Coq-bois, which we called from
a considerable distance by imitating its whistle, a
thrush (Merula fumigata), which I gave to Chapman,
and two Blue Creepers (Coereba coereba). The last were
in an agalee or cupey tree feeding on the fruit.
  We got back to breakfast at eleven and spent
the rest of the day working on the birds. I
shot a Tick bird (Crotophaga ani) and an
(Euphonia violacea) which came about our ajoupa.
At sunset we walked up the road and watched
the big Goatsucker on the stub which is evidently
his habitual feeding station. I shall make fuller
notes on him later.

  At 9 P.M. we started out on a Manicou (Opossum)
[margin] A moonlight
hunt [/margin]
hunt taking the whole pack of dogs. As we were
crossing the bridge over the creek we heard some 
creature give a succession of leaps in the bed of
wild plantains on the other side of the creek