THE LYRE BIRD. 30i 
neck, enveloping the eve in its course and terminating suddenly before it 
reaches the shoulders. The tail is black on the base and grey towards the 
tip, except the two outer tail-feathers, which have each a black spot near the 
extremity. The shafts are also black. 
LYRE BIRD. —(Menura superba.) 
WE now arrive at the family of the WRENS, in which group we find two 
birds so dissimilar in outward appearance as apparently to belong to 
different orders, the one being the common WREN of England, and the other 
the celebrated Lyre-bird of Australia. 
This bird, which also goes under the name of NATIVE PHEASANT among 
the colonists, and is generally called BULLEN-BULLEN by the natives, on 
