1894
March 25
(No 4)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
strong Fringillin lisp much like that of Eucephala coeruba.
I have never seen Glaucis outside the woods but Phaethornis
occasionally visits the cacao groves. Eucephala is equally
common throughout the forest and in the cacao.
  A little beyond this creek and some two miles from
home we heard the distant call of a Bell Bird and
followed it about for an hour or more without seeing
or even getting very near the bird which would utter
a dozen or fifteen calls, remain silent for a while, and
then begin again in a new place. Its cry resembled
the stroke of an axe on resonant wood a bok or toc
repeated every few seconds. This is not the bell sound
which we did not hear.
  While following the Bell Bird I came upon a beautiful
Woodpecker, Celeus elegans. It was very tame and
Chapman killed it with my auxiliary. We afterwards saw its mate.
  On our return we followed the banks of the creek
for a considerable distance. There was no path
but the trees were so large that there was very
little undergrowth or weeds and the walking was
open, smooth and easy. I was forcibly reminded of
the woods on the bottom lands of Southern Illinois
but the palms, of course, gave the scenery a
tropical cast wherever they occurred in any numbers.
In most cases, however, they were scarce or wanting,
and the forest trees when viewed hastily were not
strikingly different in appearance from ours. Indeed I
saw one small tree growing on the banks of the creek