Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Australian Birds/36/en
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File:Lyre bird.jpg John Gould's early 1800s painting of a superb lyrebird specimen at the British Museum This happened when a superb lyrebird specimen (which had been taken from Australia to England during the early 19th century) was prepared for display at the British Museum by a taxidermist who had never seen a live lyrebird. The taxidermist mistakenly thought that the tail would resemble a lyre, and that the tail would be held in a similar way to that of a peacock during courtship display, and so he arranged the feathers in this way. Later, John Gould (who had also never seen a live lyrebird), painted the lyrebird from the British Museum specimen.
