uckoo-shrike</hw>, <i>n</i>. This combination of two
common English bird-names is assigned in Australia to the
following--

Barred Cuckoo-shrike
<i>Graucalus lineatus</i>, Swains.

Black-faced C.--
<i>G. melanops</i>, Lath.

Ground C.--
<i>Pteropodocys phasianella</i>, Gould.

Little C.--
<i>Graucalus mentalis</i>, Vig. and Hors.

Small-billed C.--
<i>G. parvirostris</i>, Gould.

White-bellied C.--
<i>G. hyperleucus</i>, Gould.

<hw>Cucumber-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Grayling</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Cucumber-Mullet</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Grayling</i>
(q.v.).

<hw>Cultivation paddock</hw>, <i>n</i>. a field that has been
tilled and not kept for grass.

1853. Chas. St. Julian and Ed. K. Silvester, `The Productions,
Industry, and Resources of New South Wales,' p. 170:

"Few stations of any magnitude are without their `cultivation
paddocks,' where grain and vegetables are raised . . ."

1860. A Lady, `My Experiences in Australia,' p. 173:

"Besides this large horse paddock, there was a space cleared of
trees, some twenty to thirty acres in extent, on the banks of
the creek, known as the `Cultivation Paddock,' where in former
days my husband had grown a sufficient supply of wheat for home
consumption."

1893. `The Argus,' June 17, p. 13, col. 4:

"How any man could have been such an idiot as to attempt to
make a cultivation paddock on a bed of clay passed all my
knowledge.'

<hw>Curlew</hw>, <i>n</i>. common English bird-name.
The Australian species is <i>Numenius cyanopus</i>, Vieill.
The name, however, is more generally applied to <i>AEdicnemus
grallarius</i>, Lath.

1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 43:

"They rend the air like cries of despair,
The screams of the wild curlew."

1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 18:

"Truly the most depressing cry I ever heard is that of the
curlew, which you take no notice of in course of time; but
which to us, wet, weary, hungry, and strange, sounded most
eerie."

1890. `Victorian Statutes, Game Act, Third Schedule':

"Southern Stone Plover or Curlew."

1894. `The Argus,' June 23, p. 11, col. 4:

"The calling of the stone plover. It might as well be a curlew
at once, for it will always be a curlew to country people. Its
first call, with the pause between, sounds like `Curlew'--that
is, if you really want it to sound so, though the blacks get
much nearer the real note with `Koo-loo,' the first syllable
sharp, the sec