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  HOME 
  OF 
  IJIMA'S 
  COPPER 
  PHEASANT 
  IN 
  SOUTHERN 
  JAPAN 
  

  

  The 
  most 
  beautiful 
  spots 
  beloved 
  by 
  Ijima's 
  white-backed 
  Copper 
  Pheasant 
  are 
  carefully 
  preserved 
  

   because 
  of 
  regard 
  for 
  some 
  ancestral 
  shade 
  whose 
  body 
  lies 
  buried 
  near 
  by. 
  Such 
  a 
  place 
  has 
  a 
  carpet 
  of 
  

   ferns, 
  bracken 
  and 
  soft 
  bamboo 
  grass, 
  and 
  a 
  mid-growth 
  of 
  graceful 
  camellias 
  — 
  the 
  tsubaki 
  of 
  the 
  Japanese 
  — 
  

   whose 
  myriad 
  scarlet 
  bell 
  flowers 
  sway 
  in 
  the 
  wind, 
  their 
  clapper 
  stamens 
  muffled 
  with 
  knobs 
  of 
  yellow 
  

   pollen. 
  High 
  above 
  all 
  rises 
  the 
  great, 
  evergreen 
  expanse 
  of 
  camphor 
  trees, 
  in 
  grace 
  and 
  size 
  rivalling 
  any 
  

   grove 
  of 
  English 
  oaks. 
  A 
  single 
  leaf 
  plucked 
  from 
  the 
  mighty 
  branches 
  perfumes 
  the 
  whole 
  glade 
  with 
  the 
  

   aromatic 
  camphor 
  incense. 
  

  

  The 
  upper 
  photograph 
  shows 
  open 
  Copper 
  Pheasant 
  country 
  near 
  the 
  southern 
  coast 
  of 
  Kiusiu, 
  facing 
  

   the 
  great 
  island 
  volcano 
  of 
  Sakuragima. 
  The 
  lower 
  photograph 
  is 
  a 
  grove 
  of 
  camphor 
  trees 
  where 
  several 
  

   pairs 
  of 
  pheasants 
  lived 
  and 
  roosted. 
  

  

  