lyrebird

Updated: May 27, 2025

Very familiar to collectors are the camel of Obock and the Soudan, the Llama of Peru, the sacred quetzal of Guatemala the transmigrated form of the god-king of the Aztecs the lyrebird and Kangaroo of New South Wales.

John N. (John Nicholas) Luff - What Philately Teaches: A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899