PHOTOGRAVURE 58 



HOME OF THE BURMESE BARRED-BACKED PHEASANT 



My first view of this bird came when I was waiting for some silver kaleege pheasants to appear at their 

 usual drinking place on the banks of a rushing stream. I was rather hopeless of any result, for I had been 

 discovered and was being abused by a pair of squirrels and a mob of laughing thrushes, when a new voice 

 was added to the general hubbub — a series of rapidly uttered chucks of alarm and suspicion from a low tree. 

 A moment later, with a loud beating of wings, a Burmese Barred-back swung into view. It alighted on a 

 stump, gave one glance in my direction, uttered a single loud chack I and dashed off at full speed. 



The home of these birds consists principally of dense mountain-side forests, cut by tumbling brooks 

 and streams. 



