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	Lyrebird
		They were briefly thought to be Galliformes like the broadly similar looking partridge, junglefowl, and pheasants that Europeans were familiar with, but since then have usually been classified in a family of their own, the Menuridae.
		It is generally accepted that the lyrebird family is most closely related to the scrub-birds (Atrichornithidae[?]) and some authorities combine both in a single family, but evidence that they are also related to the bowerbirds[?] remains controversial.
		The Superb Lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae) is found in areas of wet forest in Tasmania, and in the temperate rainforest[?] areas of Victoria and New South Wales.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Menuridae.html (442 words)

	REVIEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although the volume is a great success as a de- scriptive treatise on the Menurae, it fails miserably in systematic interpretation because none of the au- thors, except Clench, made extensive comparisons with other passerines.
		The only systematic consensus reached is that the Menuridae and Atrichornithidae are sister taxa, but quite distinct from one another.
		No price given.--This collection of 9 papers on the morphology and systematic rela- tionships of the Australian scrub-birds (Menurae: Atrichornithidae) and lyre-birds (Menurae: Menuri- dae) had its impetus in the collection, in 1976, of a single specimen of the endangered Noisy Scrub-bird, which was previously represented by only one other anatomical specimen.
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v105n01/p0211-p0230.html (18557 words)

	Oscines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sibley and Ahlquist’s (1990) Menuroidea included Menuridae (lyrebirds), Atrichornithidae (scrub-birds), Climacteridae (Australasian treecreepers), and Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds).
		More recent studies show that the latter two are sister taxa and are more closely related to other oscines than to Menuridae (Barker et al.
		There are so far no sequence data available for Atrichornithidae, and it has been retained here within a reduced Menuroidea (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990).
	tolweb.org /Oscines (704 words)

	AMNH Scientific Publications: Item 2246/2972
		Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History.
		Part 4, Passeriformes : Tyrannidae, Pipridae, Cotingidae, Oxyruncidae, Phytotomidae, Pittidae, Philepittidae, Acanthisittidae, Menuridae, Atrichornithidae.
		Tyrannidae, Pipridae, Cotingidae, Oxyruncidae, Phytotomidae, Pittidae, Philepittidae, Acanthisittidae, Menuridae, Atrichornithidae
	digitallibrary.amnh.org /dspace/handle/2246/2972 (100 words)

	Discover Life - Aves: Menuridae - Lyrebirds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lyrebirds are an ancient Australian family with few close relatives.
		Biochemically, the closest relatives appear to be the Scrub-birds [Atrichornithidae] and, maybe, the Bowerbirds [Ptilinorhynchidae] (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990, Sibley 1974).
		The bubbling, mimicking, complex songs (see below) might recall Scrub-birds but otherwise nothing much in the passerines resembles them at all.
	pick5.pick.uga.edu /mp/20q?search=Menuridae (959 words)

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