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bSr 'll 
Port-of-Spain. 
1894 
April 8-13 
I spent these four days at the Family Hotel in 
Port-of-Spain. Most of my time was devoted to prepara¬ 
tions for departure, social calls and dinners, etc., but 
I drove to Blue Basin, six miles north of town, on the 
10th and visited the Botanic Garden for the last time 
on the 12th, taking a number of photographs on both 
occasions. I also made a number of pictures of the 
Bla.ck Vultures about the market and on house-tops. 
I saw no birds new to me save a large Kite, dark 
above and T/hite beneath, which was soaring high in air 
above the Blue Basin and even this was very probably the 
same a.s a Kite which Chapman and I saw one morning early 
in March neex Mr. Warner's house at Princestown. 
There are many smell birds in the gardens and 
parks of Port-of-Spain and still more in the Botanic 
Garden. The commonest are the Blue Tanagers, the 
Palmistes, the Black Tanagers, Pitangas . Tr oglodytes 
ru fulus , the Tick Bird ( Cr o tophaga anij F, confined chiefly 
to the Savanna and the Garden), Cycloris, Merula gymnop- 
thalma and Glaucidium. The last is really abundant in 
the Garden and I frequently heard its notes as I was 
sitting in my room in the Family Hotel. The Turkey 
Buzzard appears to shun this part of the island for I did 
not see one anywhere near the city nor even during the 
drive to Blue Basin 
