Caparo . 
1894 
March 24 
Tou cans 
I shoot 
my f irst 
specimen 
Early morning, showery, the rest of the day fine. 
After the usual coffee and bread. Chapman and I 
started out. In the cacao grove I found a pair of Trogons 
and shot the female. I then crossed through the grove to 
the road which I followed to the bridge where I found 
another pair of Trogons of the species which makes the 
Flicker call. I shot at the male twice but only wounded 
and lost him. I a,lso shot and lost O ompsothlypis pitayuna 
which was singing in the top of a tall tree. The song 
resembled that of our Parula Warbler but ended differently 
with a queer little trill. My bad luck continued most 
of the morning for I actually fired twelve consecutive 
^ot without picking up a single bird although I brought 
down four or five and lodged one or two more. 
While I was shooting at small birds along the road. 
Toucans were calling at intervals in the woods on the hill, 
I finally v/ent up there and found at least a dozen of the 
big birds in the tops of the trees. After watching and 
follov/ing them about for some time, I at length got three 
shots in quick succession, bringing down one bird and 
wo-unding another which I afterv/ards found sitting on a 
branch only a fevi feet above the ground in a dense thicket 
[poroso?J 
of roso palms. Another shot finished him. In the meantime 
Chapman had come up and shot down three more Toucans, but 
he failed to find one of them. 
