lyre-bird

Australian, truly; but, unlike the emu, the black swan, the lyre-bird, the kookaburra, and others, the swamp pheasant is not exclusively so.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

We know about the primitive fauna - the marsupials (kangaroo, wallaby, possum and platypus); the ancient types of birds (emu, cassowary, lyre-bird, and kookaburra); the dingo dogs and koala bears.

Australia Revisited 1956

Among the varieties of birds peculiar to the island are the "lyre-bird" and that known as the

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

Many varieties of remarkable and beautiful birds are found in Australia and Tasmania: the lyre-bird, with its wonderful tail feathers; the odd owl-like "morepoke," which screams its own name through the forest solitudes all night long; glistening bronze-winged pigeons; strange and gorgeous parrots; and others, to describe which would fill a large volume.

Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The lyre-bird mimics the chainsaw and Birds of Paradise spit chips.

Unmanned Stephen Oliver

We saw the little koala bear, the kangaroo, the wallaby, the platypus, who is a very peculiar little fellow with fur like a muskrat, web feet, a duck bill, and who stays either under water or on the land, the kookaburra, the lyre-bird and the emu.

Empire Parliamentary Association Visit to Australia and New Zealand 1944

The botanist Leschenalt had found over 600 species of plants which were believed to be new to science; and he eulogised the zoological work of Peron, who had succeeded in bringing to France alive seven kinds of kangaroo, an emu, a lyre-bird and several black swan.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

The botanist Leschenalt had found over 600 species of plants which were believed to be new to science; and he eulogised the zoological work of Peron, who had succeeded in bringing to France alive seven kinds of kangaroo, an emu, a lyre-bird and several black swan.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903

The crown was composed of rare feathers such as only a redoubtable and cunning hunter could obtain; and it included feathers of the lyre-bird and emu.

Adventures of Louis de Rougemont Fitzgerald, F Scott 1899

My latest news of the lyre-bird was of the surreptitious exportation of 200 skins to the London feather market.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895