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JUNGLE INHABITED BY THE BORNEAN ARGUS AND WHITE-TAILED WATTLED PHEASANT. 

 Our Dyak canoe camp on the Mujong River in central Borneo. 



peninsula railway. By hand-car and engine 

 we made our way southward to the regular train 

 terminal, and thence by rail to Johore. On this 

 and two other shorter trips in the Malay States, 

 we added three more genera to our photographic 

 list and note hooks: the Peacock Pheasants, 

 (Poli/plectrum) ; the Bronzed Peacock Pheas- 

 ants. (Chalcurus) , and even the very rare Crest- 

 ed Argus. (Rhci)iardiiis), whose dancing arena 

 we discovered in the midst of the almost im- 

 penetrable jungle. 



This completed our work in the equatorial 

 region, and in late October, 1910, we took the 

 steamer north to Rangoon. In Burma we pro- 

 ceeded by stages to Myitkyina, seven hundred 

 miles farther to the north, and close to the Tibe- 

 tan and Yunnan borders. Here we outfitted 

 with a pack-train of mules, riding horses, and 

 a motley crew of seven nationalities, and 

 trekked north-eastward, through a wilderness of 

 mountain ranges to the eight thousand foot 

 Sansi Gorge and on into Yunnanese China. 

 Then followed other trips out among the Shans 

 and Kachins as far as we dared go in the then 



turbulent state of the country. In spite of oc- 

 casional disconcerting incidents such as pot 

 shots with poisoned arrows and rocks rolled 

 down by irresponsible natives we had our usual 

 good luck in locating the pheasants and ob- 

 tained some of the most interesting specimens of 

 the entire trip. New to us were the Barred- 

 Back Pheasants, (Calophasis), the Amherst and 

 Golden, (Chrysolophus), the Fireback, (Diar- 

 digallus), and especially the Frizzled Impe3'an, 

 (Chalcophasis). The nettle-like bamboos made 

 tracking anything but easy work, and systematic 

 beating of much of the country was impossible. 

 In Burma proper, the status of the group of 

 Silver Pheasants, (Gennaeus), offered many 

 problems of extreme interest. 



We returned finally to Singapore where we 

 repacked and shipped our many cases of speci- 

 mens. On December 31, 1910, we left Singa- 

 pore for the last time, en route for Shanghai. 



In Eastern China our plans were continuallv 

 upset by unforseen events such as sudden riots, 

 terrific snow and wind storms, and the preva- 

 lence of the plague; and added to this were the 



