1894 
March 29 
- 129 - 
Caparo . 
Early morning clear. Remainder of day, cloudy with 
frequent heavy showers of fine rain and very humid and 
oppressive atmosphere. 
For ten days or more, we have seen few Hummers in 
the cacao grove. This has been doubtless due to the fact 
that a good many bois immortel trees have been in bloom in 
the groves and many poey trees in thewDods. The poey is 
out of bloom again and we have only one bois immortel in 
full blossom. To this Hummers came to-day in considerable 
numbers, although there were never more than four or five 
in the tree at any one time; but I noticed that these kept 
changing, I shot five or six specimens,for the tree stands 
within a few yards of our aj ouba and I could easily slip 
out and back between the showers, I noticed that when it 
began raining the Hummers all ceased feeding and perched 
until the shower was over, often in the bois immortel tree 
and not as a rule -ginder the shelter of thick foliage. 
There were a good many Jacobins this morning and 
I had a fine chance to watch them. They are by far the most 
showy as well as the most animated and interesting of the 
species which visit the cacao grove. At times they seem 
to become perfectly frenzied with excitement and dart 
hither and thither through the trees or mount high above 
them and dash madly about in zig-zag courses. Both males 
