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1894 
March 26 
An esperlenc e 
with the 
Bell Bird 
Cap3.ro . 
In the early morning Chapman and I took the Trogon 
Trace and followed it for half a mile or more, I shot 
only a fev; birds. A Bell Bird was heard in these woods 
by the Carrs yesterday afternoon but we listened in vain 
for it this morning. 
In the afternoon, however, I was more fortunate. 
Albert Ca.rr took me to the spot and long before we reached 
it — indeed, before we left the trace — we heard the 
loud bok repeated at short, regular intervals and at length 
the tang-tang ing of the "bell". The former sound was 
very deceptive and before we were at all near the bird I 
could have sworn th3.t he was not thirty yards off. At 
length, after walking ne3.rly a quarter of a mile through 
heavy bottom-land timber, v;e came beneath the tree in which 
the bird was sitting and in a few minutes Carr saw him 
perched on a slender, bare twig in the very top of the 
tree about 75 feet above the groiind. I watched him here 
for full fifteen minutes and saw as well as heard him make 
all three of his calls a nximber of times. At length a 
pair of Toucans came into the tree and alighted near him. 
He looked at them a moment with evident distrust and then 
fie?/ off out of sight. Presently he returned, skimmed low 
over our heads, and to my great delight settled on a 
branch not over 20 feet above the ground and scarce twenty 
yards from us. He remained here for at least fifteen 
