1894
March 20
(No 4)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  The moon was full to night and to our great delight
the sky cleared, a little before eight o'clock. Soon afterward
we heard in the distance the call of "Po-me-one". Carr,
Chapman and I started at once in the direction
of the sound. Crossing the road and a broad belt of
cacao grove beyond, leaping some of the ditches and
tumbling into others, wading knee deep through grass
and weeds, drenched with the heavy dew, breathless and
perspiring at every pore we at length came to the
edge of a piece of low swampy woods where, every
half minute or so issued the strange cry. Before we
stopped, however, the creature ceased calling and for
nearly ten minutes we stood listening without hearing
anything save an Owl, which gave a succession of
cooker-e-coos and then two cat-like yells, very near us,
its mate answering. Finally Carr whistled an imitation
of the cry of "Po-me-one". Almost instantly an answer
came from the woods. Several more calls and answers
and then a big Goatsucker, which we at once recognized
as the same bird that we have seen on the stub near
the road, came sailing directly over us. He circled twice,
uttering a low cry, and alighted on the topmost twig
of a bois immortel tree within twenty yards of where
we stood. For an instant he sat motionless then puffing
out his throat and stretching up his neck he uttered
the po-me-one. From the house (200 yds, distance) we have
heard only the first note, from the road but two, 
midway of the cacao grove (100 yds) three but now
we got the full song which consists sometimes of
four and sometimes of five notes, each a little lower
then the next preceding. The first two notes were
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