1894
April 3
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caparo to Chaguanas
  We left "It Carr [?]" at daybreak. The Owls were
just ceasing their hooting and in the forest to the
eastward the Howling Monkeys were greeting the dawn
with a succession of deep bass roars. Chapman rode
Carr's horse while I walked as far as Medford's where
I found the [?] much saddled and wonting for me.
Soon after reaching the high road we heard Paroquets
making a great screaming and presently saw a number
of them flitting about in the foliage of a tall tree.
We conjectured that they had passed the night there
and were just waking up for Chapman says that
he has never before known them to scream while
perched. After a minute or two they all took wing
and crossed the clearing flying in their usual vacillating
aimless manner now closely bunched[?], next spreading
out, circling and inching first to this side, next
to that as if they were in sad need of a leader.
[margin]An early
morning ride[/margin]

  It was a heavenly morning, deliciously cool at first,
pleasantly warm later, without a breath of wind to
shake the dew from the broad land[?] planta[?] and
palms that lined the road. I have none before seen
this wonderful tropical vegetation to such advantage.
And the birds! How they called and sang and
swung to and fro across the road. Within one
short hour I saw or heard the greater part of
all the species with which I had scraped
acquaintance during the past three weeks. It is
needless to enumerate them all here. There were
great rose-breasted Toucans, yellow-bellied Trogons,
Swifts, Tanagers of five or six kinds, yellow and white