1894
March 18
(No 4)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
his tail wide-spread. At the moment of reaching his
prey he often turns sharply upward to secure it. He
then wheels suddenly and returns to the stub by a
long, slow, graceful glide and alights as already
described. With very few exceptions his sallies are made
to the northwest, west or southwest when he often
flies thirty or forty yards before reaching his mark
and when on returning he invariably half encircles
the stub before alighting. When he flies to the eastward
it is only for the distance of a few yards. These
facts show (1) that he cannot see his prey distinctly
at any great distance except against the light in
the west and (2) that he either cannot or does not
like to turn on his perch after alighting.
  We have not yet watched him until he takes his
final departure but there can be do doubt that
this occurs before the night has wholly closed in
for we have repeatedly visited the stub in the
moonlight after the light has [delete] wholly [/delete] faded from
the west and not once has one bird been there.

  The frogs as well as the birds speak speak French here.
At first we hear on every side in the clearings
a sweet clear oui uttered at intervals of a second
or two and not very persistently. We caught the
author of this sound to-night in a shallow &
perfectly dry ditch. It proved to be a tree frog
of medium size and light grayish brown in color
with obscure dark markings. Urich says it is
[margin]A sweet voiced 
Frog[margin]
  [blank space] .  I saw a few Toads some of the same
size as ours, others twice or thrice as large.