. Zoological Society bulletin . th-ward to Kuala Lumpur in the Malay Penin-sula. We followed a trail up to the very crestof the main mountain range where great tree-ferns run riot, and from here on to Kuala Lipis,making numerous stops and side trips. Then,with a crew of five Malays and a Chinaman westarted on a long cruise in a government house-boat down the Pahang River and up its unex-plored tributaries. The luxuriant vegetationand abundant life was of extreme interest, butthe work of rinding and studying the pheasantswas laborious in the extreme. This was due tothe density and thorniness of
. Zoological Society bulletin . th-ward to Kuala Lumpur in the Malay Penin-sula. We followed a trail up to the very crestof the main mountain range where great tree-ferns run riot, and from here on to Kuala Lipis,making numerous stops and side trips. Then,with a crew of five Malays and a Chinaman westarted on a long cruise in a government house-boat down the Pahang River and up its unex-plored tributaries. The luxuriant vegetationand abundant life was of extreme interest, butthe work of rinding and studying the pheasantswas laborious in the extreme. This was due tothe density and thorniness of the undergrowthcombined with the presence of myriads of landleeches, scores of which feasted on our bloodwhenever we left the boat. Having found all the pheasant groups of thisregion, we stopped our downward journey whenwe reached a zone near the eastern coast whichwas being ravaged by cholera. Here we madeour way through the jungle for miles, at lastreaching the newly laid tracks of the trans- ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. (69. JUNGLE INHABITED BY THE BORNEAN ARGUS AND WHITE-TAILED WATTLED Dyak canoe camp on the Mujong River in central Borneo. peninsula railway. By hand-car and enginewe made our way southward to the regular trainterminal, and thence by rail to Johore. On thisand two other shorter trips in the Malay States,we added three more genera to our photographiclist and note hooks: the Peacock Pheasants,(Poli/plectrum) ; the Bronzed Peacock Pheas-ants. (Chalcurus), and even the very rare Crest-ed Argus. (Rhci)iardiiis), whose dancing arenawe discovered in the midst of the almost im-penetrable jungle. This completed our work in the equatorialregion, and in late October, 1910, we took thesteamer north to Rangoon. In Burma we pro-ceeded by stages to Myitkyina, seven hundredmiles farther to the north, and close to the Tibe-tan and Yunnan borders. Here we outfittedwith a pack-train of mules, riding horses, anda motley crew of seven nationalities, andtrekked north
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