PLATE LXXVlIi 



MALAY PEACOCK PHEASANT 



Polyplectron malaccensis (Scopoli) 



Many decades will pass before the last Malay Peacock Pheasant is driven from its haunts. It is 

 guarded so well by a host of tropical terrors, which rise at every foot and dispute one's advance into its 

 realm, that until the last mile of fever swamp is drained and the last valley cleared of its leech-filled 

 underbrush these pheasants will exist, skulking through the jungles and carrying on their small businesses 

 of life hidden from all save the lowly forest folk. It is a land of dreadful .S'ilences, filled with gorgeous 

 birds and butterflies, where man alone finds life unbearable. 



