1894
April 8 -12  
Trinidad, B.W.I.
Port of Spain.


           I spent those four days at the Family Hotel
  in Port-of-Spain. Most of my time was devoted
                       to preparations for departure, social calls and de[?],
                       etc, but I drove to Blue Basin, six miles north
                       of town, on the 10th and visited the Botanic Garden
                       for the last time on the 12th, taking a number
                       of photographs on both occasions. I alos made
                       a number of pictures of the Black Vultures about
                       the market and on house-tops.
                            I saw no birds new to me save a large Kite, dark
                      above and white beneath, which was soaring high
                      in air above the Blue Basin and over this was
                      very probably the same as a Kite which Chapman
                      & I saw one morning early in March over [?]
                      Mr. Warner's house at Princestown.
                           There are many small birds in the gardens and
                      Parks of Port-of-Spain and still more in the
                      Botanic Garden. The commonest are the Blue Tanagers,
                      the Pol[??stes], the Black Tanagers, [underlined]Pitargus, Troglydytis
                      rufulus,[underlined] the Tick Bird ([underlined]Crotophya air,[underlined] confined chiefly to
                      the Savanna and the Garden), [underlined]Cycloris, Mirula gymnoptholum[underlined]
                      and Glanirduiusm. The last is really abundant in the
                      Garden and I frequently heard its notes as I
                      was sitting in my room in the Family Hotel.
                      The Turkey [?] Buzzard appears to share this part
                      of the island for I did not see one anywhere
                      near the city nor even during the drive to
                      Blue Basin.
                           Swifts (large & small) and Bats ([underlined]Molossus obscurus)[underlined]
                     appear and fly about in extraordinary numbers over
                     the city at evening.