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lyre pheasant
Lyre bird Lyre" bird` (Zo["o]l.) Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

Meaning of lyre pheasant from wikipedia

- the shape of a lyre.: 2, 18  Lyrebirds were thought to be Galliformes like the broadly similar looking partridge, junglefowl, and pheasants familiar to Europeans...
- lyrebird (Menura alberti), also known as Northern lyrebird, is a timid, pheasant-sized songbird which is endemic to subtropical rainforests of Australia...
- broad and S-shaped named "lyrates" for their resemblance to the shape of a lyre, they have brown and buff coloured patterning. Lyrates of superb lyrebirds...
- McGowan, Philip J. K. & Kirwan, Guy M. (2002): Pheasants, partidges and grouse : a guide to the pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, guineafowl, buttonquails...
- ornithological achievement was the scientific discovery of the Mikado pheasant in the central mountain ranges of Taiwan and its introduction to aviculture...
- the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Gr**** lura meaning "lyre" with -ouros meaning "-tailed". The genus contains two species: Swainson...
- that curl outward and arranged in a way it resembles the frame of a Gr**** lyre, hence the genus name, Lyrurus. Black grouse can be found on open habitats...
- Pfrimer's parakeet Phainopepla Pharaoh eagle-owl Pheasant coucal Pheasant cuckoo Pheasant pigeon Pheasant-tailed jacana Philadelphia vireo Philby's partridge...
- gamebirds or have been domesticated as a food source for humans. Silver pheasant, Lophura nycthemera (I) Order: Phoenicopteriformes   Family: Phoenicopteridae...
- Taureador Frescos. Cat and Pheasant Hagia Triada Minoan LM I Heraklion A cat on the right side of some ivy-covered rocks stalks a pheasant with its back turned...