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1894 
March 21 
A Humming- 
bird concert 
Gaparo . 
A pleasant morning, but the afternoon dull and 
threatening with heavy rain in the evening and most of the 
night. 
At sunrise we started for the woods where we 
caught the Agouti the other afternoon. We went this morning 
expressly to hear the big Hummingbirds (Phaethornig) sing,. 
Although these birds are common enough in other places 
where we go daily, we never hear them utter anything more 
than a single chirp. But our host, Mr. Carr , directed us 
woods 
to a place in these/which, he assured us, he never passes 
without hearing a number of the birds. Sure enough, as 
we approached it this morning we heard a new and strange 
sound issuing from a dozen different places at once,as it 
seemed to us. It was most like a chorus of Hylas — yg£!r 
yep- yep — going on unceasingly yet now swelling, next 
abating somewhat. There was nothing especially peculiar 
about the place save that the trees were small, slender, 
and crowded, with a plentiful admixture of roso palms. This 
growth covered a hillside which sloped steeply down to big 
woods below. In the space of a quarter of an acre or less 
there were at least half-a-dozen Hummers. Each bird had 
his favorite perch where he would sit for many minutes 
at a time, calling y pp ^ almost unceasingly. Every now and 
then another bird would approach, buzzing loudly, when the 
calling bird would dart at him and the two would career madly 
