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all its actions, raising its crest and spreading its tail. Originally 

 described by Latham as a FLYCATCHER, MuscicaiM, Vigors and Hors- 

 field saw the need of founding a new genus for it, though they 

 admitted their ignorance of its position. Its short rounded wings 

 induced G. R. Gray to place it among his Craterapodinse, and until its 

 internal structure has been examined there it must remain. If, how- 

 ever, the eggs be so curiously marked as they are described by Gould 

 {Hunclh. B. Austral, i. p. 314), it would seem unlikely to belong to 

 that group, and that ornithologist placed the genus next to Menura 

 (Lyre-bird) — not that any affinity thereto follows in consequence. 



COALMOUSE (sometimes wrongly spelt " Colemouse "), Germ. 

 Kohhnelse, the Coal-TiTMOUSE, Farus ater, or as some would have 

 it F. hrifannicus. 



COBj Dutch Kaap and Kohhe, according to Montagu a name for 

 the Great Black-backed Gull, Lams marinus, but applied in the 

 present writer's knowledge to almost any of the larger species of 

 Sea-Gull. Yarrell says {Br. B. ed. 1, iii. p. 130): — "In the 

 language of swanherds, the male Swan is called a Cob, the female 

 a Pen : these terms refer to the comparative size and grade of the 

 two sexes " ; but corroboration of the first statement has been 

 sought in vain, while the second is hardly intelligible. 



COBBLER'S-AWL, a fanciful name given to the Avoset until its 

 extermination in the country ; and, according to Gould {Handh. B. 

 Austral, i. p. 551), now used by the colonists of Tasmania for the 

 Acanthorhjnchus tenuirostris one of the Meliphagidse (Honey-sucker), 

 known in eastern Australia as the Spine-bill. The shape of the 

 bill has in both cases suggested the name, but it is far less appro- 

 priate in the latter than in the former. 



COCCYGOMORPH^, the seventh section of Desmognath/E 

 according to Prof. Huxley's scheme {Froc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 466, 

 467), comprehending 14 Families which are arranged in four groups, 

 \dz. a, Coliidse (Mouse-bird); b, Musophagidsc (Plantain-eater and 

 TouRACo), Cuculidse (Cuckow), Bncconidx (Pufe-bird), PJiam- 

 phastidee (Toucan), CapUonidse (Barbet), Galhulidse (Jacamar) : 

 c, AlcedinidcX (Kingfisher), Bucerotidce (Hornbill), Upupid^e 

 (Hoopoe), Meropjidse (Bee-eater), Moviotidai (IMotmot), Coraciidx 

 (Roller) : and d, Trogonidse (Trogon) — all of which are in the 

 present work regarded as PiCARi^. 



COCKATEEL, a bird-fancier's name lately invented by Mr. 

 Jamrach, and now in common use, being an English adaptation of 

 Kakatielje, which in its turn is supposed to be a Dutch sailor's 

 rendering of a Portuguese word, CacatUho or Cacatelho, meaning a 

 little Cockatoo, and applied to the Australian Cockatoo-Parrakeet, 

 C'alopsitta ivjvx-hollandise, a favourite cage-bird. 



