The White-bellied Robin is a native of Western Australia, but is only to be met with in the hilly portions of the country. Mr. Gilbert states that the first specimen he procured was killed on the Darling range, near the gorge of the River Murray, at an elevation of about seven or eight hundred feet, and that he afterwards met with it on the southern extremity of the same range, between Vasse and Augusta, but that he never observed it on the lower grounds between the mountain range and the coast. Like the other species of the genus, it was constantly seen clinging to the bark of large upright trees, or straight and small stems, in search of its insect food. It is extremely quiet and secluded in its habits, is almost exclusively confined to the neighbourhood of small mountain streams, where scarcely any other sound is heard than the rippling and gurgling of the water over the rocks, and on the slightest approach it immediately secretes itself among the thick scrub or brushwood. Its song very closely resembles that of the _Petroicæ_. Immediately before the eye a small triangular-shaped spot of black; above the eye a faint line of greyish white; crown of the head, all the upper surface, wings and tail dark slate-grey; the lateral tail-feathers largely tipped with white on their inner webs; all the under surface white; irides dark brown; bill and feet black. The Plate represents the bird of the natural size, on one of the beautiful and rare plants of Western Australia, a species of _Anigozanthus_, the distinctive appellation of which I have not been able to ascertain. [Illustration: MENURA SUPERBA: _Shaw_. _J. & E. Gould del^t._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] MENURA SUPERBA, _Davies_. Lyre-Bird. _Menura superba_, Davies in Linn. Trans., vol. vii. p. 207. pi. 22.—Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. lxi.—Collins, New South Wales, vol. ii. pl. in p. 93.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 313. _Le Parkinson_, Vieill. (Ois. Dor.) Ois. de Parad., pls. 14, 15, 16. _Megapodius menura_, Wagl. Sys. Av., sp. 1. _Menura Lyra_, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pl. 577.—Vieill. Gal. des Ois., pl. 192.—G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, p. 71. _Menura Novæ-Hollandiæ_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. lxi.—Temm. Man., tom. 1. p. lvii.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p. 478. pl. 88. _Parkinsonius mirabilis_, Bechst. _Menura vulgaris_, Flem. _Menura paradisea_, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 351. _Superb Menura_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 271.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 159. pl. cxxiv. _Pheasant_ of the Colonists.—Beleck, Beleck and Balangara of the Aborigines. Were I requested to suggest an emblem for Australia among its birds, I should without the slightest hesitation select the _Menura_ as the most appropriate, being not only strictly peculiar to Australia, but, as far as is yet known, to the colony of New South Wales.