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The species does mot ascend to any great elevation, certainly not 
above 4,000 ft., and is not, so far as my experience goes, found on 
the Selangor ranges, Maur h certainly occurring on a high и 
of Batang = ae n Southern Perak. The call i very differ 
that of the n species, and is readily тее when once kaird. 
though it is а em put the difference into words. 
OCALITIES IN THE PENINSULA.—Pahang: Ulu Dong (Water- 
stradt) ; Gunong Tahan, 1,500-3,000, ft. (Wray and Robinson). 
*t 35. ARGUSIANUS ARGUS—THE ARGUS-PHEASANT, 
gianna argus (Linn.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, t.e., p. 363 ; Sharpe, t.c., 
p. 4 
кы Argus-Pheasant is common everywhere in old jungle, thr ough- 
out the Peninsula up to about 3,500 ft. but is not found in the 
wampy coastal districts. : The bird is, however, so exceedingly к» 
i X s 2 , 
one, and I myself, with a fairly extensive experience of jun fe, have 
o tually seen the wild bi ce. Nevertheless, they are very 
easily trapped, and the Sakais of certain districts often ure 
chicks and rear them with their domestic poultry. They are solitary 
in their habits, the males keeping apart from the females except at the 
breeding season, and the former has the curious habit of clearing a 
fallen from a circ 'h, sometimes four or five yards in 
diameter. These playing ground us steep 
ridge, and by running a long low fence, slightly below the crest, with 
penings every thirty or forty yards, set with snares, one is generally 
able to catch a considerable proportion of the birds in the iens 
AL RaxwaE.— From South Tenasserim throughout the Malay 
Рей to Sumatra, and also in Siam. 
Maray Name.—Burong kuang. 
*+36. PAVO MUTICUS—THE JAVAN PEAFOWL. 
Pavo muticus (Linn.); Ogilvie-Grant, t.c., p. 371; Sharpe, t.c., 
40. 
The Peafowl has а somewhat m distribution in the Ma 
Peninsula, being commoner on the side and to the north pe 
on the west and south. On the upper а ст of the Perak River it is 
th of Kuala Kangsar. Fro 
ware, 
ever been recorded, though it probably exists in Jelebu. Though at 
one time common in Malacca, it is now extinct there. It has been 
obtained in Trengganu by Dr. Abbott and Mr. Boden Kloss, and is 
very numerous on the Pahang River and its larger si pie It is 
locally abundant in certain districts of Kelantan and at Mabek, on 
а 
ver. obtaine 
of that river which are eem d es it is Bot to be foun 
It does not occur, asa rule, i =. june. | ры frequents И pre- 
five in the early morning, retiring to thie ds rab in yix са of the epe 
and roosting in high trees at indul The note is harsh and strident, the 
