1894
March 31
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo
  I spent the forenoon skinning the Hawk and some
Humming birds which I shot in a flowering bois immortel[le]
nearly over the ajoupa. They came to this tree in
great numbers to-day nearly all the common
Eucephala caerulea and Agyrtria chionipectus with a
good sprinkling of Lampomis violicanda. Of the last
I see at least six females to one male whereas the
males of Eucephala apparently outnumber the females in the proportion
of ten or a dozen to one. One fine male Jacobin came into
the tree but he only stayed a moment.

  Late in the afternoon I went up the road with
my gun. I shot three Bats (Molossus) soon after sunset
and later, when it had been nearly dark, one of
the small, slow-flying Bats which Chapman has
been anxious to identify. It proved to be a Saccopteryx
a pretty little creature with two white stripes on
the back.

  Chapman has been laid up for three days with
a bad boil on his leg.