Park Record | 1937-09-16 | Page 2 | Lyrebird Named for His Tail

I Lyrebird Named for His us Tall Tail The male is a gorgeous and elegant bird Two of his sixteen tail feathers are as colorful as a peacocks peacock's and their curves have given him his name but he never holds them in the conventional lyre shape as depicted in dictionaries I and encyclopedias and on Australian postage stamps The female is just justa a pheasant a little brown hen sort of creature who never participates in her husbands husband's popularity She cannot sing and she does docs not dance