Caparo . 
1894 
March 19 Off at sunrise with Hutton, taking the trace over 
the long ridge to the westward. For convenience of refer¬ 
ence, I will christen this the "Trogon Trace" since these 
birds are particularly numerous there. We came upon a 
Tro gons 
band of at least fifteen of the beautiful creatures this 
morning. Some of them were feeding, poising before clusters 
of small dark berries for an instant, then seizing one and 
breaking it off by simply dropping and flying av/ay. Others 
sat high up in the trees, erect and still, calling. Still 
others were chasing one another to and fro among the leaves, 
sometimes descending and perching near the ground, flirting 
their tails slowly. They were all of one species — the 
kind that has the Cuckoo voice. I shot three but one in 
falling struck a branch and lost all the feathers on one 
side of the breast. Dissection of the ghree specimens 
that I have skinned thus far has shown that they will not 
nest for at least six or eight weeks. 
giue £££££. On reaching the cupey tree we found it simply alive 
i n a with Creepers. They were so high above the earth that it 
PPP.ey jL r PP. was impossible to distinguish colors but shooting quite 
at random I got three specimens of the red-legged blue 
species, two of the yellow-legged and two of the green 
Chlorophanes soiza . The last I had not killed before. 
