1894
April 6 
(No 3)  
Trinidad. B.W.I.
Causa
                                                                                          
        There are plenty of Bats out this evening but we                
         had bad luck with them and did not get a single                  
                     specimen. I lost a chance at one of the big ones               
                     in the following [?]. It was nearly dark and
                     I was standing in the road with cocked gun watching
                     the cover of clear sky between the tree tops when
                     I saw a Bat of about the same time and
                     probably of the same species as the one killed
                     last evening, coming swiftly but steadily. It was
                     an easy shot and I was on the [?] point of
                     pulling when suddenly, from the creature's [underlined] nose [/underlined]. blared
                     out a light as brilliant as, and closely resembling
                     that of, the big tropical fire-fly ( [underlined] Elatu [/underlined] ), Turning
                     to our side the Bat next plunged directly into
                     the [crossed out] woods [/crossed out] cacao grove which borders the river and
                     for the distance of fifty yards or more it
                     found its way [underlined] through [/underlined], not merely among, the
                     foliage many of the leaves of which were for an
                     instant distinctly and rather brightly illuminated as
                     in the case when an Elatu uses his lamp to
                     find his way amid the trees. Here is evidently
                     something worth investigating for it will be remembered
                     that Hutton and I were both satisfied that a
                     phosphorescent light came from the mouth of
                     the big Bat which I shot at Capara. On that
                    occasion the creature emitted the light when it
                     wounded and flapping about on the ground at
                     our feet. Of course it is possible that the Bat
                     seen tonight was bearing an Elatu in his teeth.
                     Chapman also saw the light whish so astounded me
                     that I quite forgot that I held a gun in my hands.

[margin]A Bat
with a 
head-light![margin]