1894
April 3
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Capro to Chaguanas

headed Manakins, black-headed and chestnut-breasted Finches
Parrots, Flycatchers of three or four kinds - in short pretty
nearly all the common birds of Trinidad.
[margin]An early
morning ride[/margin]

  As we neared Chaguanas the sun became very hot
and there were few birds singing except Trogons
which love the heat (like our Tanagers, and some
Vireos (V. agilis) in a large cacao grove near
the station.

  I must not omit to mention one Bird Song which
especially interested me because of its close resemblance
to that of our Indigo Bird. It came from a thicket
by the roadside and presently we saw the singer which
Chapman pronounced to be Sporophila.

  We had the vexation of missing our train by a 
few minutes only and in consequence more obliged 
to [delete]take[/delete]spend the entire forenoon at Chaguanas
and take the noon train for Saint [?] Joseph where we
waited another hour finally reaching Tacariqua
at about 2.30P.M. Mr. Lichfold was waiting
for us. He had a mule for Chapman and
a horse and trap for me. I said a horse
but the animal was really a pony which weighed
according to the driver who owned him only about
400 pounds. Yet he is said to be frequently driven
fifty or sixty & occasionally seventy-five miles
in a day. He took us up the steep, winding
road to Lichfold's, a distance of seven miles, with
wonderful ease & swiftness running many of the hills.