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merits with M. Milne- Edwards, Director of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, presenting the bird 

 to that institution, where it was placed in a very large aviary, 1 gave full instructions to the 

 keeper there how to feed it and look after it, and it thrived well, living for a period of five and a 

 half years, and where I saw it several times during my different trips to Europe." 



NEST OF LYRK-BIRD (ill sitU.) 



Only one egg is laid for a sitting. Typically they vary in form from oval to elongate o\ al, the 

 shell being finely granulate and slightly lustrous. In ground colour they vary from a light stone- 

 grey to deep purplish-brown, having short streaks, spots and blotches of different shades of deep 

 slaty-grey and dark blackish-brown equally distributed over the surface of the shell. In some 

 specimens these markings predominate on the thicker end, where they form a distinct cap, or an 



