PLATE XXXIV 



BORNEAN CRESTLESS FIREBACK 

 Acomus pyronotus (Gray) 



Low, wet jungle along the coast of Borneo Is the home of this bird. I have seen a pair feeding 

 beneath a berry tree, upon the fallen fruit, together with the Insects which have collected. A small bird 

 called out In alarm at the sight of some danger, and both birds squatted flat among the begonias. A 

 scale-bird sang, and confidence was at once restored. A few minutes later a great branch crashed to the 

 ground, but the birds hardly glanced up, so perfectly did they judge between actual danger and a 

 harmless jungle happening. 



