PHOTOGRAVURE 54 



HOME OF REEVES'S PHEASANT IN CENTRAL CHINA 



The favourite haunt of the Reeves is in certain mid-reaches of the Yangtse, where black, frowning cliffs 

 rise sheer hundreds of feet above either bank, covered with gnarled, stunted vegetation which is deformed by 

 the elements and scanty nourishment. 



Once when a line of beaters was trying to locate a young tiger which had made a kill, two cock Reeves 

 flushed suddenly, one of which rose straight ahead, high up over the pines, while the other bird doubled back 

 suddenly and shot past with terrific speed, dodging the beaters and the trunks of the trees with such sharp 

 turns that the long, flowing tail-feathers seemed fairly to curl around the trunks as the bird veered past. 



