LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES xii 
PHOTOGRAVURE 28. BORNEAN HOME OF THE WHITE-TAILED WATTLED 
PHEASANT ‘ : . Facing page 150 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
On the slopes of the rolling hills of central Sarawak, in the warm jungles, sloping down to the 
yellow rivers, these magnificent pheasants have lived for untold centuries. Only by days of the 
most patient watching can they be seen, and more often a fleeting glimpse is all that rewards a 
painstaking stalk. 
Beneath the tangles of soft-fronded climbing ferns, or the solid phalanx of bamboos, the birds 
may remain hidden a few yards distant, and never be discovered. The young birds are less wary, 
and, trusting more to their inconspicuous colouring, often come into more open spaces, to scratch 
for food or to preen their plumage. 
PuotocravureE 29. WHITE-TAILED WATTLED PHEASANT . . Facing page 160 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
In the immature White-tailed Pheasant (left) the wattles are short and inconspicuous, In the 
adult (right) they are long and wrinkled, and at the moment of courtship capable of being 
considerably elongated. 
The head-hunting Sea Dyaks of Sarawak are splendid hunters, and will spend days and nights 
stalking and trapping pheasants and other birds. With the crudest kind of traps they would 
capture the birds alive and bring them to me unharmed in wicker quakes. 
PuotocravurRE 30. HOME OF THE RED JUNGLEFOWL ; . Facing page 174 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
In northern Burma I found the wild Junglefowl coming out to feed along the trails which lead 
from village to village. They cluck and scratch among the turf, and take dust baths exactly like 
our domestic fowl, and I have often found it difficult to shoot them, as the action seemed like 
unsportsmanlike slaughter in a barn-yard. At the first hint of danger, however, they lower their 
tails and run headlong, like pheasants, into the nearest underbrush. 
The nests are hidden away in the clumps of bamboo, a mere hollow being scratched out, or the 
eggs deposited on the dry leaves. 
PHOTOGRAVURE 31. ROOSTING AND FEEDING-PLACES OF THE RED 
JUNGLEFOWL . ; : . Facing page 182 
Photograph by Wilham Beebe. 
These birds roost high up, often on the half-bent curve of a tall bamboo, whose smooth stem 
ensures safety from arboreal carnivores. As many as thirty birds have been seen roosting close 
together. 
Just as tame fowl are fond of the company of barnyard cows, so the wild Red Junglefowl are 
often seen in the vicinity of wild cattle, and I have seen them again and again feeding about buffalo 
wallows. It is almost impossible to flush these birds. They invariably choose to escape by 
running swiftly away, yet, when surprised by a dog, they have the ability of rising as quickly and 
strongly as partridges. 
PHoToGRAVURE 32. JAPANESE LONG-TAILED FOWL . , . Facing page 104 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
Of all curious breeds of domestic fowl, none are more remarkable than the Japanese birds, 
whose upper tail-coverts sometimes reach a length of over twenty feet. The feathers are kept 
wrapped in soft paper, and the birds themselves spend a most uninteresting life in a high, narrow 
box, fed by hand and cared for by special attendants. 
PuHotoGRavurE 33. HOME OF THE CEYLON JUNGLEFOWL . Facing page 216 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
Along the coast of Ceylon, where the eucalyptus, acacias and mesquite abound, these 
Junglefowl are abundant. The region is park-like, the thorn-bushes and trees alternating with 
glades or larger open plains, dry and sandy, or with pools and grass. Here they must ever be on 
the watch for leopards and civet cats, and at night they sleep in dense foliage on lofty limbs, well 
out from the trunk, so that an enemy approaching along the branch would at once be detected. 
