PHOTOGRAVURE 63 



HAUNTS AND NESTING-PLACE OF THE MALAY BRONZE-TAILED 

 PEACOCK PHEASANT 



The home of these birds touches the extremes of sunlight and shadow, from the stream-beds in the 

 depths of the ravines, where all is dark and sunless, to the sunlit ridges where warmth and brilliance pervade 

 all things. Here among golden and azure blossoms the Bronze-tails live. 



At an elevation of thirty-two hundred feet in the mountains of Pahang, near a rocky defile, half-way up 

 a steep slope, was the spot where a Bronze-tailed Peacock Pheasant had made its nest. Only broken 

 eggshells remained, half sunken into the moss and leaves between two great fallen trees. 



