1894
April 4
(No 2)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caura
shelf of the ledge piping incessantly. It was a tiny creature
less than half-an-inch in length above wood brown with
dark mottling, beneath pale yellowish with a bright sulphur
yellow throat. Its toes were supplied with minute round
sucking discs. This description is taken from a specimen
which Mr. Lickfold caught in another place later in
the day & which we are keeping alive in a tumbler
to the sides of which it clings with ease. The one
we saw this morning eluded capture but was unquestionably
of the same species.

  Our next adventure was with a large Manicou (Opposum).
We heard something which I took to be a bird making a
scolding noise near the path. After watching & listening for
a moment we saw some bushes shaken and presently
a gray mass moving among them. Shortly afterwards it
came out into plain view on long branch which it
followed for eight or ten feet occasionally stopping and looking
down at us with a quizzical expression its large eyes
very wide open, the ears twitching a little now and then.
Next it climbed directly upward thirty feet or more following
a slender liana, moving slowly and using its fore paws like
human hands often testing its hold before trusting to it.
After remaining very quiet for a long time on a high branch
it descended again by the same liana which it still clasped
with its fore and hind feet but it now used its tail, also,
curling the end into a hook or ring about the liana but
not sufficiently tightly to afford any support but rather,
evidently, as a measure of precaution in case the feet should
slip. It appeared to wish to reach the ground again where
Lickfold thought there must be a female concealed among