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PHOTOGRAVURE 21. HOME OF RIPPON’S SILVER AND OF EASTERN HYBRID 
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Photograph by Wilkam Beebe. 
Three of these rare hybrids crossed this trail one day, headed into a wild, deep gorge. The 
mountains rose high on all sides, except to the northward, where the purple distance ended in the 
jagged ranges of the unexplored tri-corner of Tibet, Yunnan and Burma. 
Parrakeets and flycatchers screamed, and at last I heard the tremulous wing-whirr of a 
pheasant. But it was an hour later before the timid birds appeared—clad in ebony and white, 
walking slowly downward, on their way to the water, at the bottom of the gorge. 
PHOTOGRAVURE 22. HOME OF THE WESTERN HYBRID KALEEGE Facing page 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
In western Burma, where the ranges of Horsfield’s and the Lineated Kaleege approach or touch, 
the jungles and lesser growth are inhabited by pheasants which show all degrees of intergradation. 
Their voice, habits, eggs and young are all more or less alike, but on the plumage of the adult birds 
is written their blood relationship to one or the other of their parents or more remote ancestors. 
PHoTocravurE 23. HAUNTS AND BREEDING-GROUND OF THE LINEATED 
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Photograph by William Beebe. 
In central Burma, east of the Irrawaddy, we find a dense growth of small oaks, chestnuts and 
pines. Blackberries ripen at the end of the rains, and the Lineated Pheasants come into the grassy 
fields for berries and grubs. In the early morning it would not be difficult to approach closely, 
were it not for the flocks of blossom-headed parrakeets which fly off screeching, spying one from 
afar and warning every creature within hearing. 
PHoToGRAvuRE 24. CHINESE HAUNTS OF THE SILVER PHEASANT Facing page 
Photograph by William Beebe. 
In Fokien, near the borders of Kiangse, the pheasants of “day and night” live among wild 
ravines and mountains. There are no large trees, and the dwarf bamboos and shrubs have been cut 
again and again by the yellow men for fuel. But here, in company with shrikes and mynas, and a 
flock of magpies, I found the Silver Pheasant near the rivers. 
PHoToGRAVURE 25. HAUNTS OF THE MALAYAN AND BORNEAN CRESTLESS 
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Photograph by William Beebe. 
In both countries these pheasants live in dense jungle, where they have access to open clearings, 
or at least the trails made by wild animals. Here they strive to escape their enemies, snakes and 
civet cats, which lie in wait or creep silently through the undergrowth. And here they nest, 
although up to the present time no white man has seen nest, eggs or young, so timid are they, and 
so skilful in hiding their home among the swamps and tangles. 
PHOTOGRAVURE 26. HOME OF THE MALAYAN CRESTED FIREBACK 
Photograph by William Beebe. Facing page 
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. 
PHoTocGRAvuRE 27. HOME OF THE BORNEAN CRESTED FIREBACK 
Photograph by William Beebe. Facing page 
The home of this bird was reached by means of a seventy-foot Dyak war canoe, in which I was 
paddled up the rivers to the inland jungles. Here, in the haunts of gaily coloured pittas, of 
glittering sunbirds and the glorious tropical orchids, these birds live and court their mates and rear 
their young. Often the first hint of their presence is the call of the cock, a low, mumbled 
Um—um! Um—um! followed by a single, sharp, keen whistle, which cuts through the warm, 
quiet air like a knife. 
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