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THE LYRE-BIRD, 
“ all the birds 1 have ever met with, the Menura is far the most shy and difficult to 
procure. While among the mountains I have been surrounded by these birds, pouring forth 
the loud and liquid calls for days together, without being able to get a sight of them, and 
LYBE-BIKD .— Menura superba. 
it was only by the most determined perseverance and extreme caution that I was enabled 
to effect this desirable object, which was rendered more difficult by their often frequenting the 
almost inaccessible and precipitous sides of gullies and ravines, covered with tangled masses 
of creepers and umbrageous trees ; the cracking of a stick, the rolling down of a small stone, 
