Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. IIC) 
calcdonicus: Means of (New) Caledonia. This Rosella belongs only to Tasmania, 
and was given the name in error. The Night-Heron so named is found in New 
Caledonia as well as in Australia. The name Rosella is a variation of RosehiU, 
a hill near Parramatta, New South Wales, where the bird was plentiful. It 
was called the Rosehill Parrakeet. 
callainus I G. Kallainos , like the Kallais , a blue stone, said to bo the turquoise. 
Kallais is from Greek kalos, beautiful, and laas, stone. 
CAMPOPHAGID/E should be spelt Campcphagida ;, as shown by Vicillot in the 
vocabulary at the end of his Analyse — “ catnpe , eruca ” (caterpillar); 
“phage, etfo” (I eat). \ t? > 
CANUTUS : From King Canute, of Denmark, whence the bird was supposed to 
coine, and the bird’s littoral habits,’especially that of closely following the 
retiring wave, and withdrawing from the advancing wave, while searching 
for food on the beaches. Some say the name Knot is derived from Canute. 
CAPELLA : Diminutive of L. caper , goat — the bird’s note being like the cry of 
a young kid. It was called the u bleating snipe.” 
capito : Means large-headed. Capitonidai is the name of a South American family 
of birds that often sit " with the feathers of the head Huffed out.” 
CAPRIMULGUS : From the earliest times this bird was believed to have the habit 
implied by its name “goatsucker” in many European languages besides 
English : c.g., Gk. aigotheles , Latin caprimulgas, Italian succicapre, &c. 
Aristotle (n.c. 350) apparently shared the belief and wrote “ flying to the 
udders of she-goats it sucked them and so it gets its name. They say that the 
udder withers when it has sucked at it and that the goat goes blind.” 
carunculafa: S ee cratitia. 
CASA RCA : See Nyroca . 
CASUAR1US : A New Latin word used by Brisson and Linnaeus, formed from a 
Malay word, first printed as casnaris by Bontius, 1658. 
CATHARACTA : The correct Greek spelling is catarrades (or catarrh acles) — a 
seabird that rushes down on its prey like a “ cataract.” The name occurs in 
Aristophanes, “ The Birds.” 
CENTROPUS : Gk. spur, foot. Coucal was the name given by Le Vaillant (an 
African traveller) and was compounded from French coucou , a cuckoo, and 
alouette , a lark ; the bird being a cuckoo with a long hind claw like that of a 
lark. 
channel-bill : Sec Scythrops. 
CHIBIA : Punjabi chiba ugly (Langton). Drongo is said to be the native name of 
an Edolius in Madagascar. 
CH LAM YD ERA : G. chlamys , mantle, and derc, neck. 
CISTICOLA : L. = oistus-lover. Tho Cist us is a genus of flowering plants, 
referred to in Gilbert White’6 Selborne (Naturalist’s Calendar). 
cockaliel is said to be from the Portuguese cocatehlo, a little cockatoo. 
cockatoo : See Cacatua and Kakatoe. 
COLLOCALIA : G. = glue nest. 
cormorant : See Phalacrocorax. 
coucal : See Cenlropus. 
cratitia : The bird with this name is one of the “wattled” honeyeaters. The 
original description says nothing about the name. Cratitia means “ wattled ” 
but in the sense of “ made of wattle or wickerwork,” Latin, cratitius being the 
adjective formed from crates , wickerwork. Two names that signifv “ having 
fleshy wattles ” are caruncnlatus from camncula diminutive of Latin caro , flesh 
(Anthochcera carunculala , red wattle-bird) and Creadion , diminutive of Greek 
kreas , flesh, used by Vieillofc for the w attle birds of Australia and thesaddle-back 
of New Zealand. Vigors and Horsficld (1827) fixed Creadion for the saddle¬ 
back of New Zealand, though Mr. G. M. Mathews prefers fixation by Lesson 
in 1830 as the yellow wattle-bird. 
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