H. Haydon, `The Australian Emigrant,' p. 110:

"The note of the More-pork, not unlike that of a cuckoo with a
cold."

1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 98:

"The distant monotone of the more-pork--the nocturnal cuckoo
of the Australian wilds."

<i>Incorrect</i>--

1858. W. H. Hall, `Practical Experiences at the Diggings in
Victoria,' p. 22:

"The low, melancholy, but pleasing cry of the Mope-hawk."

1877. William Sharp, `Earth's Voices':

"On yonder gum a mopoke's throat
Out-gurgles laughter grim,
And far within the fern-tree scrub
A lyre-bird sings his hymn."

[This is confusion worse confounded. It would seem as if the
poet confused the <i>Laughing Jackass</i> with the
<i>Mopoke</i>, q.v.]

1878. Mrs. H. Jones, `Long Years in Australia,' p. 145:

"How the mope-hawk is screeching."

<i>Owl</i>--

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 71:

"A bird of the owl species, called by the colonists morepork,
and by the natives whuck-whuck, derives both its names from the
peculiarity of its note. At some distance it reminds one of
the song of the cuckoo; when nearer it sounds hoarse and
discordant."

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. ii. pl. 1:

"<i>AEgotheles Novae-Hollandiae</i>, Vig. and Horsf, Owlet
Nightjar; Little Mawepawk, Colonists of Van Diemen's Land."

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. ii.
p. 253:

"The Mawpawk, More Pork, or Mope Hawk, is common in most parts
of the colony, and utters its peculiar two-syllable cry at
night very constantly. Its habits are those of the owl, and
its rather hawkish appearance partakes also of the
peculiarities of the goat-sucker tribe. . . . The sound
does not really resemble the words `more pork,' any more than
`cuckoo,' and it is more like the `tu-whoo' of the owl than
either."

1859. D. Bunce, `Australasiatic Reminiscences,' p. 14:

"Just as our sportsman, fresh from the legal precincts of
Gray's Inn Square, was taking a probably deadly aim, the
solitary and melancholy note of `More-pork! more-pork!' from
the Cyclopean, or Australian owl, interfered most opportunely
in warding off the shot."

1864. `Once a Week,' Dec. 31, p. 45. `The Bulla Bulla
Bunyip':

"The locusts were silent, but now and then might be heard
the greedy cry of the `morepork,' chasing the huge night-moths
through the dim dewy air."

1892. A. Sutherland, `Elementary Geography of British
Colonies,' p. 274: