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1894 
March 9 
Trinidad, B. W. I. 
Moruga Rest House. 
We left Port-of-Spain on the 7,12 train this 
morning and reached Princestown at about 11. For the greater 
part of the way the railroad traverses a perfectly level 
country bordering the coast and planted with sugar cane, 
with occasional small patches or broad belts of swampy woods, 
which, at a distance, resemble closely the forests of our 
South Atlantic States. Indeed where this sugar cane was 
not too well grown or the palms too numerous it was by no 
means difficult to imagine myself in Georgia or South 
Carolina near Charleston. 
The Black and Turkic Buzzards sailing about every¬ 
where helped the illusion but this was destroyed at once by 
the close view of the forest or of the smaller birds, nearly 
all of which were wholly new and strange to me. It would 
be idle to try to record half the interesting species which 
Chapman pointed out and named to me. I was most impressed 
with a large black Hawk, probably Ur ubitingca , which sat 
perched in a large tree near the railroad, by the beautiful 
Rose-breasted Troupials which were flitting about in pairs 
or singly on most of the larger plantations and which in 
flight and general beh&yior reminded me of Red-winged 
Blackbirds, and by the strikingly colored White-headed Widows 
A rundinicola leucoc e phala of which I saw several flying 
from tree to tree or from clod to clod in the recently 
