. . and vainly endeavour to exist
on what they can earn besides, their frequent compulsory
abstinence from meat, when they cannot afford to buy it, even
in their land of cheap and abundant food, giving them some
affinity to the grain-eating white cockatoos."

<hw>Cockatoo Fence</hw>, <i>n</i>. fence erected by small
farmers.

1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. xxii. p. 155:

"There would be roads and cockatoo fences . . . in short, all
the hostile emblems of agricultural settlement."

1890. Lyth, `Golden South,' c. xiv. p. 120:

"The fields were divided by open rails or cockatoo fences, i.e.
branches and logs of trees laid on the ground one across the
other with posts and slip-rails in lieu of gates."

<hw>Cockatoo Bush</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Native Currant</i>
(q.v).

<hw>Cockatoo Orchis</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian name for the
Orchid, <i>Caleya major</i>, R. Br.

<hw>Cock-eyed Bob</hw>, a local slang term in Western Australia
for a thunderstorm.

1894. `The Age,' Jan. 20, p. 13, col. 4:

"They [the natives of the northwest of Western Australia] are
extremely frightened of them [sc. storms called <i>Willy
Willy</i>, q.v.], and in some places even on the approach of an
ordinary thunderstorm or `Cock-eyed Bob,' they clear off to the
highest ground about."

<hw>Cockle</hw>, <i>n</i>. In England the name is given to a
species of the familiar marine bivalve mollusc, <i>Cardium</i>.
The commonest Australian species is <i>Cardium
tenuicostatum</i>, Lamarck, present in all extra-tropical
Australia. The name is also commonly applied to members of the
genus <i>Chione</i>.

<hw>Cock-Schnapper</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish; the smallest kind of
<i>Schnapper</i> (q.v.). See also <i>Count-fish</i>.

1882. Rev. I. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 41:

"The usual method of estimating quantity for sale by the
fisherman is, by the schnapper or count-fish, the school-fish,
and squire, among which from its metallic appearance is the
copper head or copper colour, and the red bream. Juveniles
rank the smallest of the fry, not over an inch or two in
length, as the cock-schnapper. The fact, however, is now
generally admitted that all these are one and the same genus,
merely in different stages of growth."

<hw>Cod</hw>, <i>n</i>. This common English name of the
<i>Gadus morrhua</i> is applied to many fishes in Australia of
various families, Gadoid and otherwise. In Melbourne it is
give