A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer associated with a magenta coupler provided on a support, wherein at least one of said silver halide emulsion layer and the layer(s) adjacent to the emulsion layer contains a hydroquinone derivative, wherein said coupler is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formula (1), bis-compounds derived from the compounds, and polymers having coupler residues derived from the compounds,
wherein R, represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or group which can be released therefrom upon coupling with an oxidized form of an aromatic primary amine-developing agent; and Za, Zb, and Zc each represents a methine, substituted methine, =N-, or-NH-, one of Za-Zb bond and Zb-Zc bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond, and when the Zb-Zc bond is a carbon-carbon double bond, it can form a part of an aromatic ring, or R, or X is a group forming the bis-compound or the polymer or Za, Zb, or Zc represents a substituted methine forming the bis-compound or the polymer, and
said hydroquinone derivative is represented by formula
wherein R 2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, alkoxy group, aromatic group, or alkylthio group; R 3 represents an alkylene group; n represents an integer of 0 or 1; and M = represents a cation.