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Caparo. 
1894 
March 27 
A rainy-season day, with frequent showers of fine 
rain and humid oppressive atmosphere. 
In the early morning I walked down the road nearly 
to Mr. Medford’s plantation. Before starting I shot three 
Swifts for Chapman; during the walk, a beautiful pair of 
Tityra cayana which I mistook for Bell Birds. They were 
in a tall tree over the road, feeding on large berries 
which they first seized while hovering in front of the clus¬ 
ter and then broke off by dropping backwards in the manner 
of Trogons, I also shot a Tyrannus satrapa and a Rampho- 
celus maA'njiOstris but lost both in dense thorny scrub into 
which they fell, 
I had a fine view of two Green Parrots ( Amazona 
amazonica ). a pair, apparently, v>rhich alighted in a small 
solitary tree not 30 yards from where I stood and within 
20 yards of a negro’s cabin. They climbed down a liane, 
using their beaks as third legs and altogether behaving in 
a manner which forcibly reminded me of our Parrot,"Jack”, 
I also saw several flocks of Paroqueets whirling about 
high in air like birds. The big Parrots fly in pairs 
and their flight is very like that of Fratercula artica 
in every way. 
In a small, perfectly leafless tree by the roadside 
ray eye caught a slight movement and looking more closely 
