  Recently, Hang Liu and Hourong Qin came up with a numerical observation about
the relation between the Mahler measures of one hyperelliptic and two elliptic
families. The discoverers foresee a proof of the identities "by extending ideas
in" two papers of Matilde Lal\'{\i}n and Gang Wu, the ideas based on a theorem
of Spencer Bloch and explicit diamond-operation calculations on the underlying
curves. We prove the relation using the already available diamond-free
methodology. While finding such relations for the Mahler measures remains an
art, proving them afterwards is mere complex (analysis) exercising.
