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MENURIDJE. 
jnclics long. Bill 0 - 5 inch in length, blackish-brown at tip ; tarsi 
0'8 inch in length.” ( Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1868, p. 49.) 
llab. New South Wales. {Ramsay.) 
MENURA ALBERTI, Gould. 
Prince Albert’s Lyre-bird. 
Gould, llandbk. Bds. Aust., Yol. i., sp. 181, p. 307. 
“ Nest similar to that of M. snperba. I have lately seen a line 
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.” 
(Ramsay, P.L.S., N.S.W., Vol. vii., p. 50.) 
llab. Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts. (Ramsay ) 
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MENURA VICTORIA, Gould. 
Queen Victoria’s Lyre-bird. 
Gould, Handbk. 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 ; 
