1894
March 29
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  Early morning clear. Remainder of day cloudy with
frequent heavy showers of fine rain and very humid
and oppressive atmosphere.

  For ten days or more we have seen but few Hummers
in the cacao grove. This has been doubtless due to
the fact that a good many bois immortel trees
have been in bloom in the groves and many pocy
trees in the woods. The pocy is out of bloom
again and we have only one bois immortel in
full bloom. To this Hummers came to-day in
considerable numbers although there were never more
than four or five in the tree at any one time,
but I noticed that these kept changing. I shot
five or six specimens for the tree stands within
a few yards of our ajouba and I could easily
slip out and back between the showers. I noticed
that when it began raining the Hummers all
ceased feeding and perched until the shower was
over, often in the bois immortel tree and not as
a rule under the shelter of thick foliage.
  There were a good many Jacobins this morning
and I had a fine chance to watch them. They
were by far the most showy as well as the
most animated and interesting of the species
which visit the cacao grove. At times they seem
to become perfectly frenzied with excitement and
dart hither and thither through the trees or
mount high above them and dash madly about in
zig-zag courses. Both males & females act in this
way and often when no other bird is near. Once this