.v.) in Tasmania.

1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p.386:

"The `dog-wood' of Tasmania, and the `cotton-wood' of Southern
New South Wales, on account of the abundant down on the leaves.
A hard, pale-brown, well-mottled wood, said by some to be good
for furniture. It emits a foetid smell when cut."

<hw>Coucal</hw>, <i>n</i>. a bird-name, "mentioned probably for
the first time in Le Vaillant's `Oiseaux d'Afrique,' beginning
about 1796; perhaps native African. An African or Indian
spear-headed cuckoo: a name first definitely applied by Cuvier
in 1817 to the birds of the genus <i>Centropus</i>."
(`Century.') The Australian species is <i>Centropus
phasianellus</i>, Gould, or <i>Centropus phasianus</i>, Lath.
It is called also <i>Swamp-pheasant</i> (q.v.), and
<i>Pheasant-cuckoo</i>.

<hw>Count-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. a large <i>Schnapper</i>
(q.v.). See <i>Cock-Schnapper</i>.

1874. `Sydney Mail,' `Fishes and Fishing in New South Wales':

"The ordinary schnapper or count fish implies that all of a
certain size are to count as twelve to the dozen, the shoal or
school-fish eighteen or twenty-four to the dozen, and the
squire, thirty or thirty-six to the dozen--the latter just
according to their size, the redbream at per bushel."

<hw>Count-muster</hw>, <i>n</i>. a gathering, especially of
sheep or cattle in order to count them.

1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 1:

"The old man's having a regular count-muster of his sons and
daughters, and their children and off side relatives-that is,
by marriage."

<hw>Cowdie</hw>, <i>n</i>. an early variant of <i>Kauri</i>
(q.v.), with other spellings.

1889. T. Kirk, `Forest Flora of New Zealand,' p. 143:

"The native name `Kauri' is the only common name in general
use. When the timber was first introduced into Britain it was
termed `cowrie' or `kowdie-pine'; but the name speedily fell
into disuse, although it still appears as the common name in
some horticultural works."

<hw>Cowshorns</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Tasmanian orchid,
<i>Pterostylis nutans</i>, R. Br.

<hw>Cow-tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. a native tree of New Zealand.
Maori name, <i>Karaka</i> (q.v.).

1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 346:

"The karaka-tree of New Zealand (<i>Corynocarpus
laevigata</i>), also called kopi by the natives, and cow-tree
by Europeans (from that animal being partial to its leaves),
grows luxuriantly in Sydney."

<hw>Crab</hw>, <i>n</i>. O