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"The other animals are small Malay bears, wild swine, horned cattle, and puny deer. The elephant and rhinoceros are found, few in number, in the north. The birds are the eagle, vulture, argus-pheasant, a singular and beautiful bird, peacocks, flamingoes, and swifts." "What in the world are swifts?" inquired Mrs. Woolridge.
Its plumage was highly colored and very beautiful. "What do you call that bird, Louis?" asked Morris. "Chambers calls it simply the argus, but the more common name is the argus-pheasant," replied Louis. "Faix, he's a magnificent crayter; and what a long tail our cat has got," added Felix, as he spread the bird out on the gunwale.
The elephant, the rhinoceros, the royal tiger, the black panther, the boar, the leopard, and many other beasts roam in its tangled, twilight depths, but in this fierce heat they must be all asleep in their lairs. The Argus-pheasant too, one of the loveliest birds of a region whose islands are the home of the Bird of Paradise, haunts the shade, and the shade alone.
During the morning, Achang had placed the stuffed orang-outang on a shelf the carpenter had erected at the head of the platform, with the proboscis monkey on one side, and the argus-pheasant on the other. The Bornean had had some experience as a taxidermist, and Dr. Hawkes declared that he had done his work well. Louis explained these specimens, and gave the measurements of the orang.
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