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Family II. MENURID^. 



1. MENURA. 



Menura, Bctvies, Tram. Linn, Hoc. vi. p. 207 (1800) M. superba 



Vavkmsomus, Bechsf. Kurze Zrebers. f'iVi/. p. 1:34 (1811^ 



Type. 

 . supe 

 1). ;M. superba. 



Rani/e. Confined to Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



(I. Outer tail-feather ^Yllite or ashy white on the iuner 

 web with rufous uotclies and tipped with black ; 

 under tail-coverts ashy ; back ashy brown. 

 d'. Outer tail-feather ashy white below, the bars beinji- 



reddish brown siqjerba, p. 061 . 



h'. Outer tail-feather white below, the bars being 



chestnut victovice, p. 662. 



h. Outer tail-feather not barred ; under tail-coverts 

 chestnut ; upper smface also rufous bro^^^l or dull 

 chestnut alberti, p. 602. 



1. Menura superba. 



Jlenura superba, Dnvies, Trans. Linn. Sue. vi. p. 207, pi. 22 (1800); 



Gould, B. Ausfr. iii. pi. 14 (1841) ; Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 153 (1847) ; 



Bi). Consp. i. p. 215 (1850) ; Reichenb. Viifj. Xeuholl. p. 77 (1850) ; 



Gould, F. Z. S. 1853, p. 45; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 298 (1865) ; 



Graij, Hand-I. B. i. p. 185, no. 2529 (1869) ; Ramsay, Tab. List 



Austr. B. p, 7 (1888). 

 Superb Menura, Lath. Gen. Sijn. Suppl. ii. p. 271, pi. cxxxiii. (1801). 

 Menura novffi hollandia3, Lat/i. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. Ixi (1801) ; 



Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 323, pi. 192 (1825). 

 Le Parkinson, .4;/f/(-/>. et Vieill. Ois. Dor.ii. Suppl. pis. 14-16 (1882). 

 Paradisea parkinsoniana, Shaw S,- Nodder, Nat. Misc. xiv. pi. 577 



(1802). 

 Menura lyra, Shaw. 



Parkinsonius mirabilis, Bech-st. Kurxe Uebers. ViJt/. p. 134 (1811). 

 Menura vulgaris, Fleming, Philos. Zool. ii. p. 241 (1822). 

 Meg-apodius menura, Waglcr, Syst. Av. Megapodius, sp. 1 (1827). 

 Menura paradisea, Siuains. Classif. B. ii. p. 251 (1837). 

 Majnura superba, Sold. Dirent. p. 134 (1872). 



Adult. General colour brown, rather slaty brown on the mantle, 

 and slightly washed with hoary grey on the rump ; lesser wing- 

 coverts dark slaty brown, the remainder of the wing-coverts rather 

 more rufous ; the primaries blackish, externally olive-brown, the 

 secondaries more rufous ; upper tail-coverts reddish brown ; two 

 centre tail-feathers with brown webs along the outer edge, but 

 having only a few radii on the inner one ; remainder of the feathers 

 having only long lateral filaments, only the basal portion being- 

 webbed ; the outer feather curving gracefully outward at the ends, 

 the outer web being smoky brown and the tip black, the inner web 



