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Gaparo. 
1894 
March 31 
I spent the forenoon skinning the Hawk and some 
Hummingbirds which I shot in a flowering bois immortel 
nearly over the ajoupa. They came to this tree in great 
numbers to-day but nearly all/tne common Eucephala caerulea 
and Agyrtria chionipectus with a good sprinkling of 
Lampornis violicaU da, Of the last, I see at least six 
females to one male, virhereas the males of Eucephala 
apparently outnumber the females in the proportion of ten 
or a dozen to one. One fine male Jacobin came into the 
tree but he only stayed a moment. 
Late in the afternoon I went up the road with my 
g'\m. I shot three Bats ( Molossus ) soon after ainset and 
later, when it had become nearly dark, one of the small, 
slow-flying Bats which Chapman has been so anxious to 
identify. It proved to be a Saccopteryx -- a pretty 
little creature with two white stripes on the back. 
Chapman has been laid up for three days with a 
bad boil on his leg 
