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BY N. C. BROOKS.
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The Menura Superba, a species of the Bird of Paradise, is also called the Lyre Bird, from the perfect resemblance of the tail to an ancient lyre. Its powers of song are very great. It commences singing in the morning, and gradually ascends some eminence as it sings.—Shaw’s Zoology.
Bird of the forest, thy form is fair
As a summer cloud on the evening air,
And the golden plumage upon thee lies
In tintings rich as a rainbow’s dyes;
Yet fairer wert thou when thy form, at first
From the hands of God like a sunbeam burst,