PLATE XXXIV 
BORNEAN, CRESELESsS. FIREBACK 
Acomus pyronotus (Gray) 
Low, wet jungle along the coast of Borneo is the home of this bird. I have seen a pair feeding 
beneath a berry tree, upon the fallen fruit, together with the insects which have collected. A small bird 
called out in alarm at the sight of some danger, and both birds squatted flat among the begonias. A 
scale-bird sang, and confidence was at once restored. A few minutes later a great branch crashed to the 
ground, but the birds hardly glanced up, so perfectly did they judge between actual danger and a 
harmless jungle happening. 
