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Chauguerras and Caparo 
1894 
March 12 We left Mr. Warner’s delightful house at 9.30 and 
took the 10.30 A. M. train for Chauguerras where Mr. Oarr 
and Mr.„Urich met us. They had a cart for the luggage, a 
mule for Chapman, and a small, quiet and very easy-gaited 
horse for me but they were obliged to walk most of the way— 
a distance of eight miles. 
The road is straight, wide, level and macadamized 
for the first five or six miles. It is bordered on both 
sides for most of the way by extensive groves of cacao, 
but as we approached Caparo we passed several large t racts 
of "high woods" as the primeval forest is here called. 
Birds were exceedingly abundant in places, in others 
apparently very scarce but this may have been due to the 
fact that it was the hot hour of the day and very hot at 
that, for there was no breeze and the sun burned like fire. 
I saw nothing of peculiar interest except a pair 
of Pygmy Owls sitting low down in a leafless tree, one 
above the other, very erect and still. 
Trogons were really numerous in many places. I 
heard the calls of two different species. That of one is 
practically identical with the cuc-cuc-cuc-cuc of Coccygu s 
erythrophthalmus , that of the other is more like the shout 
of Colaptes . I saw only one bird. It sat almost bolt, 
upright on a large branch and moved only its head slightly. 
