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Please note that John Gould's beautiful painting of the Superb Lyrebird, with regard to the male Lyrebird's tail, is, unfortunately, not accurate. The Lyrebird's tail is totally different to that portrayed in the painting, which was based on a dead Lyrebird taken from Australia to England, in the 1800's, and prepared for display in the British Museum by a taxidermist who did not know how the tail feathers on a live Lyrebird were arranged, because he had never seen a live Lyrebird, and incorrectly assumed that the Lyrebird's tail would be held erect in a similar way to that of a Peacock, and prepared the museum's specimen in this way. John Gould then painted the male and female Lyrebirds from the British Museum specimens. The male Lyrebird's tail is never held in such a fashion, but is spread forward over the Lyrebird's body and head during the Lyrebird's courtship dance. Please see external links on the Lyrebird article to see what the male Lyrebird's tail actually looks like.
I am worried that the Superb Lyrebird, as painted by John Gould, is now in a non-English Wikipedia article on the lyrebird as a depiction of what the Lyrebird's tail looks like, rather than the image being portrayed in the historical way it should be.
