PHOTOGRAVURE 26 
HOME OF Ith MALAYAN CRESTED FIREBACK 
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. 
