1894
April 4
(No 4)
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Caura
  Late in the afternoon I walked down the road for
a few hundred yards finding a large army of Hunting Ants
attended as usual by several Creepers (Dendrornis) one of
which was uttering its monotonous Flicker-like call and
"shout" at frequent intervals. A little later after the
sun had set and twilight was falling the snoring frogs
began. Very near at hand their cry sounds like a
deep, rolling croak, at the distance of fifty yards or so
like a loud snore, at a hundred yards & beyond
exceedingly like a slow breathing puff of a large engine
to which I compared it last night. These Frogs were evidently in the trees.
The sweet-voiced little Frog so common at Caparo (the
one that says oui) appears to be wholly wanting
here.
  The Frog that I took for a Humming bird this morning
was singing everywhere this evening.

  We saw great numbers of Bats, the majority Molossus
rufus. There were also a good many slow-flying little
fellows apparently like the kind I shot at Caparo
and we saw three or four huge fruit bats.