PLATE XXXIX 



WHITE-TAILED WATTLED PHEASANT 



Lobiophasis bulweri Sharpe 



Perched in a tiny half-cave in the rocky side of a deep gorge in central Borneo, I watched the 

 flying lizards, gorgeous as butterflies, pass swiftly from tree to tree, while long-tailed paradise flycatchers 

 swooped after flying insects, in and out of the shadows overhead. Without warning there stepped into 

 view three chevrotain, the tiniest of jungle deer, and with them a quartet of White-tailed Pheasants, one 

 a fully adult male with great, spreading tail sweeping the ground. They walked slowly beneath me, and 

 still unalarmed, passed from view in the direction of the river. 



