1894
March 21
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
continued for a moment or two [delete]this bird[/delete] one bird would
return to this perch and begin yepping again. His motions
while thus engaged were peculiar and most interesting.
He sat very erect but in an easy, listless attitude the
points of the wings drooping below the tail which was
closed and kept constantly vibrating up & down slightly
there being usually about two vibrations to each call. With each yep
the long bill was thrown nearly straight up and the mouth
slightly opened while the red under the mandible showed very
conspicuously and the whole body twitched convulsively.
At long intervals (in fact we only saw it twice) the bird
would spread his tail to its widest extent and erect it
over his back so that it pointed straight up at the same
time moving it slowly from side to side. The tips of the
central feathers evenly touched the back of the bird and the general
effect was almost precisely like that of a strutting Turkey
cock.
[margin]A Humming
bird concert[/margin]
  All these Hummers perched low down when calling usually
from two to four feet above the ground on [delete]a[/delete] slender
horizontal twigs bare of leaves. Carr tells us that an
imitation of the call of Glaucidium excites them greatly
and draws them about the caller but we failed to
make it work in this way probably because our
imitation was not sufficiently good.
  I shot a fine Coq-bois and several other small
birds among these two Yellow-headed Manakins
We returned to breakfast & spent the day on
our specimens.