PHOTOGRAVURE 75 



DANCING-GROUND OF A FULL-GROWN ARGUS PHEASANT, AND NATIVE 

 SPRING-TRAP WHICH CAUGHT THE BIRD 



Thk Dyak hunters have two ways of securing Argus Pheasants : they sometimes drive a sharpened 

 bamboo stake into the centre of the arena, which the bird attempts unceasingly to uproot, and in so doing 

 ultimately cuts its own throat; or a spring-trap is set with the treadle concealed in the escape trail, and 

 sprung by the bird the first time it passes. 



