Dr. G. Bennett on the Lyre-Bird of New Holland. 53 



of a specimen of an Australian Python, the Diamond-Snake, Morelia 

 spilotes. 



Fig. a. Worm of natural size, attaclied to inner surface of intestine. 

 Fig. *. Bothria. slightly enlarged, showing the upper openings. 

 Fig. c. The same, showing lower openings. 



Fig. d. Posterior extremity of a young specimen, showing the, comparatively 

 speaking, larger articulations. 



Jan. 24, 1865.— E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed 

 to him by Dr. Bennett, F.Z.S., dated Sydney, Nov. 18th, relating 

 to a living specimen of the Lyre-bird of New Holland {Menura su- 

 perha), which the Acclimatization Society of that city were intending 

 to transmit by the first favourable opportunity to this Society : — 



" After repeated trials of keeping this wild and restless bird in 

 captivity, and having procured and lost in one year numerous living 

 birds of all ages, from the young bird to the adult, we have so far 

 succeeded as to preserve one alive and in excellent health, and feed- 

 ing well, since the 23rd of August last ; to this day it continues 

 in good health and condition. It is a young bird, at present in im- 



