^^" niRD aAI.LERY. 



cream-coloured, and in some species heavily spotted towards tlic larger 

 cud. 



To the subfamily Cahjiitonienhue belong three beautiful species with 

 the nostrils hidden by the erect frontal plumes and the plumage mostly 

 vivid greeu. All three are represented in the Case; Culyptomena tuhitc- 

 headi (1562), the largest, and C. ho.ie'i (1563), with its bright blue 

 breast, both very rare birds, being peculiar to the highlands of ]5orneo, 

 while the smaller C. virkJix (1564), a jiair of which arc mounted 

 with their uest, is more widely distributed in the Indo-JVIalayan 

 region. 



The second subfamily, Eurylamina;, includes a number of handsome 

 forms, such as Horsfield's Broad-bill {Eurijlcemus javaiikiis) (1565) and 

 the Long-tailed Broad-bill [Psarisomus dalliousia;) (1566), and the 

 sombre-coloured Dusky Broad-bill [Corydon sumatranus) (1567), with 

 its remarkablv wide flattened bill like that of a Fros-mouth. 



Order XXX. MENURIFORMES. 



The remarkable Australian forms constituting this order have usually 

 been associated with the Passeres, but differ in various anatomical points 

 and the nestling is covered with dense down. Only one family is 

 known. 



Family Menurid.i:. Lyre-Bihds. (PI. XXIII. fig. 1.) 



(■Cat^e fir ] The three large species of Menura (1568) included in this family arc 

 all natives of Anstralia and inhabit the precipitous rocky gullies in 

 thick forests with tangled undergrowth, feeding on mollusca, worms, 

 beetles, and other insects. They are remarkable for their immensely 

 developed legs and feet, with long, stout, slightly curved claws, with 

 which they scratch up the soil like Game-birds m search of insects, and 

 for the extraordinary shape and structure of the tail-feathers in the 

 male, the outer pair being curved like a lyre. In the female the tail is 

 long and normally shaped. The natural cry is a loud liquid gnrgliug 

 sound, but these birds also possess great powers of reproducing the song 

 and calls of other birds and animals, or any other sound they may hear. 

 The oval domed nest (1669), placed sometimes on the ground, some- 

 times on trees, contains one large egg, blotched and marked with purplish 

 brown. 



