It has a deep love of melody, which it is able to express most sweetly with consummate art.
It dances prettily and accompanies its steps with a strange elfin music, spaced with throbbing time-beats which the dancing steps conform.
It is irresistibly attracted to reside in places of supreme loveliness and grandeur filled perennially with the most pleasing perfumes of the bush.
Its nature is amiable and kindly and it has a decidedly sociable disposition.
It is capable of loyal friendship with human beings, but its friendship cannot be won – as that of all other wild creatures – with offerings of food.
Its domestic life is exemplary and never disfigured by quarrels.
Ambrose Pratt, The Lore of the Lyrebird