g2 COALMOUSE—COCKATEEL 
all its actions, raising its crest and spreading its tail. Originally 
described by Latham as a FLYCATCHER, Muscicapa, 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 Crateropodine, 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 
(Handb. 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. 
Kohlmeise, the Coal-Tirmousk, Parus ater, or as some would have 
it P. britannicus. 
COB, Dutch Kaap and Kobbe, according to Montagu a name for 
the Great Black-backed GULL, Larus 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 (Handb. B. 
Austral. i. p. 551), now used by the colonists of Tasmania for the 
Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris one of the Meliphagidx (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. 
COCCYGOMORPHA, the seventh section of DESMOGNATHA 
according to Prof. Huxley’s scheme (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 466, 
467), comprehending 14 Families which are arranged in four groups, 
viz. a, Coliid# (MOUSE-BIRD); b, Musophagidx (PLANTAIN-EATER and 
Touraco), Cuculide (Cuckow), Bucconide (PUFF-BIRD), tham- 
phastide (ToucAN), Capitonide (BARBET), Galbulide (JACAMAR) ; 
c, <Alcedinide (KINGFISHER), Lucerotide (HORNBILL), Upupidx 
(Hoovor), Meropide (BEE-EATER), Momotide (Mormot), Coraciide 
(RoLLER): and d, Trogonide (TRoGoN)—all of which are in the 
present work regarded as PICARILE. 
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, Cacatilho or Cacatelho, meaning a 
little CocKAToo, and applied to the Australian Cockatoo-Parrakeet, 
Calopsitta nove-hollandix, a favourite cage-bird. 
