[Case 67, ] 
106 BIRD GALLERY. 
cream-coloured, and in some species heavily spotted towards the larger 
end. 
To the subfamily Calyptomenine belong three beautiful species with 
the nostrils hidden by the erect frontal plumes and the plumage mostly 
vivid green. All three are represented in the Case; Calyptomena white- 
headi (1559), the largest, and C. hosei (1560), with its bright blue 
breast, both very rare birds, being peculiar to the highlands of Borneo, 
while the smaller C. viridis (1561), a pair of which are mounted 
with their nest, is more widely distributed in the Indo-Malayan 
region. 
The second subfamily, Hurylemine, includes a number of handsome 
forms, such as Horsfield’s Broad-bill (Eurylemus javanicus) (1563), 
the Long-tailed Broad-bill (Psarisomus dalhousie) (1566), and the 
sombre-coloured Dusky Broad-bill (Corydon sumatranus) (1567), with 
its remarkably wide flattened bill like that of a Frog-mouth. The 
Black-and-Red Broad-bill (Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus) (1565) is 
shown with its large globular nest made of grass. 
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 Menurip#. lLyre-Birps. (Plate XXIII. fig. 1.) 
The three large species of Menura (1568) included in this family are 
all natives of Australia and inhabit the precipitous rocky gullies in 
thick forests with tangled undergrowth, feeding on moliusca, worms, 
beetles, and other insects. They are remarkable for their immensely 
developed legs and feet, with long, stout, slightiy curved claws, with 
which they scratch up the soil like Game-birds in search of msects, 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 hquid gurgling 
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 (1569), placed sometimes on the ground, some- 
times on trees, contains one large egg, blotched and marked with purplish- 
brown. 
