THE COaf MON COrCAL OH CROW PHEASANT 
It is very (on4 of the railway clearings and thv h\g black and 
rufous bird C£(n often be seen from the windows of tlie Singa- 
pore-Penang mail. 
One or two can sometimes be seen in the Economic 
Gardens in Cluny Road, and on the small islands hereabouts it 
is more tiumerous tiian in Singapore itself. 
Field i\ofes: — The crow-pheasant is usually seen sitting- 
on the top of a bush or tangled mass of scrab on open gromifl. 
He is a crafty fellow and of marked sulking and dodging^ 
habits, dropping like a stone into the grass at the first sign 
of danger and then running away on the ^^-round. On the 
wing, he looks not unlike an English pheasant. Although the 
bird may not be well-known at sight the voice is perhaps 
familiar. 
From the bush one liears "toop-toop-toop'- or the sound 
from whkh the Malays have given him his local name "bubat, 
bubut". 
Other habits The food consists of insects and other 
small living things which afe hnnted to a large extent on the 
ground. 
This bird makes its own nest^ a large globe-like mass of 
twigs f grass, etc. which contains white eggs and is plac^'d in 
a hush or tree. 
