122 MENUKIDJB. 



inches long. Bill 0-5 inch in length, blackish-brown at tip ; tarsi 

 0-8 inch in length." {Bamsay, P.Z.S., 1868, p. 49.) 



HaA. New South Wales. {Bamsay.) 



MENURA ALBERTI, Gould. 



Prince Albert's Lyre-bird. 



Gould, Randhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 181, p. 307. "Z. 3. 



" Nest similar to that of M. superba. I have lately seen a fine 

 specimen of this rare egg in the Macleayan Museum, and another 

 in the Australian Museum Collection, which are all I have met 

 with during the last twenty years ; the egg is oval, almost equal 

 at both ends, the ground colour is of a rich purple-brown, the 

 thicker end of the egg is blotched with large irregular markings 

 of purplish-brown, very dark and almost forming a zone, the 

 remainder of the surface is marked with irregularly shaped spots 

 of the same tint, a few of them inclining to linear, others almost 

 rounded; length 2'23xl'7 inch. The ground colour of the 

 specimen in the Macleayan Museum was a purplish-stone, but has 

 faded to a light slate colour, the markings are irregular, of a dark 

 purplish-brown and sprinkled sparingly over the surface." 

 (Bamsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 50.) 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts. (Ramsay ) 



MENURA VICTORIiE, Gould. 



Queen Victoria's Lyre-bird. 



Gould, Homdhh. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 108, p. 302. ^^- ^< ^. 



This species differs but slightly from M. superba, and is precisely 

 similar in its manner of nidification, and the localities which it 

 frequents. I have often obtained the nests and eggs of this species 

 in various parts of Victoria, but principally in South Gippsland ; 



