PHOTOGRAVURE 60 



MOUNT ARIZAN : HOME OF THE MIKADO PHEASANT 



The Mikado Pheasant lives among the wild fastnesses of Mount Arizan, Formosa. Dense forests 

 clothe the steep slopes to the very summit, clinging to sheer cliffs, overhanging breathless gorges. 



Here, from a mile and a half to two miles above the sea, in gloomy cypress jungles and among bamboo 

 and rhododendron thickets, these magnificent, velvety-black birds feed, and call, and mate, and rear their 

 chicks. Where man can only cling, and creep with snail-like pace, the intimate life and habits of these 

 pheasants must long remain a mystery. 



