PHOTOGRAVURE 26 



HOME OF THE MALAYAN CRESTED FIREBACK 



In the low, dense jungle of the Malay States, in thickets of thorny tangles and enmeshed vines, these 

 birds live. To study them one must fight hosts of leeches and mosquitoes, mud and rain, or, when the 

 sun appears, the steaming heat of these breathless places. Here the bulbuls sing sweetly, and gorgeous 

 butterflies flap slowly past, and here these pheasants scratch among the dead leaves for food, or walk in 

 the shallow water of jungle creeks, drinking and catching tiny creatures in the sand and gravel. 



