The Guacharos alone would have been sufficient to render it celebrated.

These nocturnal birds have been nowhere yet discovered except in the mountains of Caripe and Cumanacoa.' So much from the great master, who was not aware (never having visited Trinidad) that the Guacharo was well known there under the name of Diablotin.

But his account of Caripe was fully corroborated by my host, who had gone there last year, and, by the help of the magnesium light, had penetrated farther into the cave than either the bishop or Humboldt.

He had brought home also several Guacharos from the Trinidad caves, all of which died on the passage, for want, seemingly, of the oily nuts on which they feed.

A live Guacharo has, as yet, never been seen in Europe; and to get one safe to the Zoological Gardens, as well as to get one or two corpses for the Cambridge Museum, was our hope--a hope still, alas! unfulfilled.