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Caparo 
We reached Mr. Carr's country house at Caparo a 
little before sunset. The house is in a small opening, 
surrounded on every side by cacao groves with a small, muddy 
river winding between steep, high, clayey banks just behind 
the trees which shut out the view to the eastward. Beyond 
this river the land rises in a steep ridge covered with 
primeval forest. 
After tea we walked to the river to see a "robin 
roost" but the birds ( Meru la gymnophthalma ) did not put in 
an appearance although Mr. Carr saw hundreds the last time 
he visited the place — a dense thicket of plantains 
and bananas on the bank of the river. We saw nothing but 
a small Heron ( Ardea cyanura ) which in flight and note 
exactly resembled our Ardea virescens . 
No TinamoUs called this evening but I heard one 
about midnight. During the three or four hours which we 
spent sitting on the piazza before going to bed, we heard 
only two birds, both Owls, one the bird ( Megascops) , 
which calls" cook-er- re- coo ", the other a large Owl (accor¬ 
ding to Mr. Carr), which made a very cat-like sound. 
There were two tree toads calling at once. The 
sound to-night reminded me most of escaping steam. There 
were also four or five frogs like the one which I hea.rd 
at Prince©town last night. 
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