1894
March 26
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  In the early morning Chapman and I took the Trogon
Trace and followed it for half a mile or more. I
shot only a few birds. A Bell Bird was heard in these
woods by the Carrs yesterday afternoon but we listened
in vain for it this morning.
  In the afternoon, however, I was more fortunate. Albert Carr
took me to the spot and long before we reached it
- indeed before we left the trace - we heard the loud
bok repeated at short, regular intervals and at length
the tang-tanging of the "bell". The former sound was
very deceptive and [delete]long[/delete] before we were at all near the bird
I could have sworn that he was not thirty yards off.
At length after walking nearly a quarter of a mile
through heavy bottom-land timber we came beneath the
tree in which the bird was sitting and in a few
minutes Carr saw him perched on a slender, bare twig
in the very top of the tree about 75 ft. above the ground.
I watched him here for full fifteen minutes and saw as
well as heard him make all three of his calls a number
of times. At length a pair of Toucans came into the 
tree and alighted near him. He looked at them a
moment with evident distrust and then flew off
out of sight. Presently he returned, skimmed low over
our heads, and to my great delight settled on a
branch not over 20 ft. above the ground and scarce
twenty yards from us. He remained here for at
least fifteen minutes more, bok-ing, tang-ing and
calling tuc-tuc etc many times. Mr. Carr assures me
that he has never before watched one under such favorable
conditions. The bird sat on a naked branch in a strong
[margin]An experience
with the
Bell Bird[/margin]