Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
March 24
  Early morning showery, the rest of the day fine.
  After the usual coffee and bread Chapman & I
started out. In the cacao grove I found a pair
of Trogons and shot the female. I then crossed
through the grove to the road which I followed
to the bridge where I found another pair of Trogons
of the species which makes the Flicker call. I
shot at the male twice but only wounded & lost
him. I also shot and lost a Compsothlypis pitayuna [delete]but
failed also to find him[/delete] which was singing in the
top of a tall tree. The song resembled that of our
Parula Warbler but ended differently - with a queer
little trill. My bad luck continued most of the
morning for I actually fired twelve consecutive
shots without picking up a single bird although
I brought down four or five and lodged one or two
more.
  While I was shooting at small birds along the
road Toucans were calling at intervals in the
woods on the hill. I finally went up there
and found at least a dozen of the big
birds in the tops of the trees. After watching
and following them about for some time I
at length got three shots in quick succession
bringing down one bird and wounding another
which I afterwards found sitting on a branch
only a few feet above the ground in a
dense thicket of rozo palms. Another shot finished
him. In the meantime Chapman had come
up and shot down three more Toucans but he failed
[margin]Toucans[/margin]
[margin]I shoot
my first
specimen[/margin]