`Goodway cobra tree' = `Tree very tall.'] Collins,
`Port Jackson Vocabulary,' 1798 (p. 611), gives `Kabura,
ca-ber-ra.' Mount Cobberas in East Gippsland has its name from
huge head-like masses of rock which rise from the summit.

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 31:

"The black fellow who lives in the bush bestows but small
attention on his cobra, as the head is usually called in the
pigeon-English which they employ."

1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xiii. p. 134:

"I should be cock-sure that having an empty cobbra, as the
blacks say, was on the main track that led to the grog-camp."

<hw>Cock-a-bully</hw>, <i>n</i>. a popular name for the New
Zealand fish <i>Galaxias fasciatus</i>, Gray, a corruption of
its Maori name <i>Kokopu</i> (q.v.).

1896. `The Australasian,' Aug. 28, p. 407, col. 3:

"During my stay in New Zealand my little girl caught a fish
rather larger than an English minnow. Her young companions
called it a `cock-a bully.' It was pretty obvious to scent
a corruption of a Maori word, for, mark you, cock-a-bully has
no meaning. It looks as if it were English and full of meaning.
Reflect an instant and it has none. The Maori name for the
fish is `kokopu'"

<hw>Cockatiel</hw>, <hw>-eel</hw>, <i>n</i>. an arbitrary
diminutive of the word Cockatoo, and used as another name for
the Cockatoo-Parrakeet, <i>Calopsitta novae-hollandiae</i>,
and generally for any Parrakeet of the genus <i>Calopsitta</i>.
(`O.E.D.')

<hw>Cockatoo</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) Bird-name. The word is Malay,
<i>Kakatua</i>. (`O.E.D.') The varieties are--

Banksian Cockatoo--
<i>Calyptorhynchus banksii</i>, Lath.

Bare-eyed C.--
<i>Cacatua gymnopis</i>, Sclater.

Black C.--
<i>Calyptorhynchus funereus</i>, Shaw.

Blood-stained C.--
<i>Cacatua sanguinea</i>, Gould.

Dampier's C.--
<i>Licmetis pastinator</i>, Gould.

Gang-gang C.-- <i>Callocephalon galeatum</i>, Lath. [See
<i>Gang-gang</i>.]

Glossy C.--
<i>Calyptorhynchus viridis</i>, Vieill.

Long-billed C.--
<i>Licmetis nasicus</i>, Temm. [See <i>Corella</i>.]

Palm C.--
<i>Microglossus aterrimus</i>, Gmel.

Pink C.--
<i>Cacatua leadbeateri</i>, V. & H. (Leadbeater, q.v.).

Red-tailed C.--
<i>Calyptorhynchus stellatus</i>, Wagl.

Rose-breasted C.-- <i>Cacatua roseicapilla</i>, Vieill. [See
<i>Galah</i>. Gould calls it <i>Cocatua eos</i>.

White C.--
<i>Cacatua galerita</i>, Lath.

White-tail