1894
March 18
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo.
  After breakfast this morning I took a short walk
through the cacao grove along the river. A loud
flapping of wings, frequently repeated, came from a large
tree on the further bank and presently I saw the
bird a fine large Pigeon (Columba speciosa) with
yellow bill and white-spotted breast. There were several
of them in the tree which apparently bore small
berries on which they were feeding.
  Perched on the extreme tip of a dead twig over
the water, sitting very erect and rolling its head about
precisely like a Flycatcher was a Jacamar. Its green
back glistened in the sunlight like the throat of
one of the Hummingbirds found here.
  A fine male of the Heterocnemis naevia, the first I have
seen and a rare bird Chapman tells me, was 
hopping about on the mud and exploring nooks &
crannied under the bank much in the manner
of a Carolina Wren.
  In the cacao grove I came upon a Dendromis srous[?]
and watched it for several minutes. Its motions,
like those of all the others that I have seen,
are, to my eyes, much more like those of a
Woodpecker than a Creeper. The bird movies up the
trunk by a succession of well marked hops and
not at all in the even, creeping manner of Certhia. 
It also carries itself more like a Woodpecker.
  In the afternoon I shot two good birds, a Compsothlypis
pityuna in a bois immortel in front of the house
and a Ruby Topaz Hummer in a [?] tree
near our ajouba.