PHOTOGRAVURE 76 



CEYLON HOME OF THE PEAFOWL 



In the open, grassy country of south Ceylon, with half-filled lagoons here and there, only a few miles 

 within from the ford used by bullock carts, I saw my first wild peacock, and found its nest. Early one 

 morning, the scope of the upper photogi-aph, I saw peafowl, wild pig, spoonbills, pelicans, flamingoes, 

 elephants and axis deer, and heard barking deer and junglefowl. Amid such a natural zoological park 

 these splendid birds made their home. 



