camp' in a railway carriage, and
Sir Henry Parkes being flood-bound at Quirindi."

1896. Modern:

"Visitor,--`Where's your Mother?' `Oh, she's camping.'" [The
lady was enjoying an afternoon nap indoors.]

(3) To stop for a rest in the middle of the day.

1891. Mrs. Cross (Ada Cambridge), `The Three Miss Kings,'
p. 180:

"We'll have lunch first before we investigate the caves--if
it's agreeable to you. I will take the horses out, and we'll
find a nice place to camp before they come."

(4) To floor or prove superior to. <i>Slang</i>.

1886. C. H. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 207:

"At punching oxen you may guess
There's nothing out can camp him.
He has, in fact, the slouch and dress,
Which bullock-driver stamp him."

<hw>Camphor-wood</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian timber; the wood
of <i>Callitris (Frenea) robusta</i>, Cunn.,
<i>N.O. Coniferae</i>. Called also <i>Light, Black, White,
Dark</i>, and <i>Common Pine</i>, as the wood varies much in
its colouring. See <i>Pine</i>.

<hw>Canajong</hw>, <i>n</i>. Tasmanian aboriginal name for
the plants called <i>Pig-faces</i> (q.v.).

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 44:

"Pig-faces. It was the <i>canajong</i> of the Tasmanian
aboriginal. The fleshy fruit is eaten raw by the aborigines:
the leaves are eaten baked."

<hw>Canary</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) A bird-name used in New Zealand
for <i>Clitonyx ochrocephala</i>, called also the
<i>Yellow-head</i>. Dwellers in the back-blocks of Australia
apply the name to the <i>Orange-fronted Ephthianura
(E. aurifrons</i>, Gould), and sometimes to the
<i>White-throated Gerygone (Gerygone albigularis</i>).

1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 56:

"<i>Clitonyx Ochrocephala</i>. Yellow-head. `Canary' of the
colonists."

(2) Slang for a convict. See quotations. As early as 1673,
`canary-bird' was thieves' English for a gaol-bird.

1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. ii.
p. 117:

"Convicts of but recent migration are facetiously known by the
name of <i>canaries</i>, by reason of the yellow plumage in
which they are fledged at the period of landing."

1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' c. ii. p. 72:

"The prisoners were dressed in yellow-hence called `canary
birds.'"

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. vi. p. 49:

"Can't you get your canaries off the track here for about
a quarter of an hour, and let my mob of cattle pass ?"

<hw>Candle-nu