are few areas of high woods left,the greater portion of 
the country being covered with densely-grown scrub or old 
cacao plantations in which the bois immortel trees are of 
very great size — sixty to seventy-five feet in height — 
and three or four feet through at the base, with buttressed 
roots like ceibas. These bois immortels are of a different 
species from those which we have seen at Caparo but they 
have the same general appearance, resembling poplars 
(especially some of the cottonwoods) in both bark and 
foliage. 
I had an hour or two before Chapman and Lichfold 
arrived and employed it in strolling up and down the road, 
watching and listening to the birds. The commonest species 
here appear to be Merula gymnopthalma and Dendrornis , I 
also noted Cycloris , Saltator olivaceus , Tachyphonus rufus , 
Tanagra sclateri, E uphonia tr init at is , Thamnophilus ma.j or , 
Thamn o philus do liatus , Diplopteryx , Thryothorus , Troglodytes 
rufulus and a number of Hummers, none of .which I was able 
to identify. Swifts were flying about in small numbers 
but all, so far as I could make out, were of one species — 
the kind that has the white rump . 
As night closed in I listened in vain for Owls 
and Goatsuckers. The only sounds were that of the number¬ 
less little water falls in the river, the chirping of crickets 
