Part 53 (2/2)

The commonest Australian species is Cardium tenuicostatum, Lamarck, present in all extra-tropical Australia The naenus Chione

<hw>cock-Schnapper</hw>, n a fish; the smallest kind of Schnapper (qv) See also Count-fish

1882 Rev I E Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'

p 41:

”The usualquantity for sale by the fisherman is, by the schnapper or count-fish, the school-fish, and squire, a which from its metallic appearance is the copper head or copper colour, and the red bream Juveniles rank the sth, as the cock-schnapper The fact, however, is now generally adenus, rowth”

<hw>Cod</hw>, n This colish name of the Gadus morrhua is applied to many fishes in Australia of various faiven to Lotella callarias, Guenth, and in New South Wales to several fishes of the genus Serranus

Lotella is a genus of the fas; Serranus is a Sea perch (qv) See Rock Cod, Black Rock Cod, Red Rock Cod, Black Cod, Elite Cod, Red Cod, Murray Cod, Cloudy Bay Cod, Ling, Groper, Hapuku, and Haddock

<hw>Coffee-Bush</hw>, n a settlers' name for the New Zealand tree the Karamu (qv) Sometimes called also Coffee-plant

<hw>Coffer-fish</hw>, n iq Trunk-fish (qv)

<hw>Coffee Plant</hw>, or <hw>Coffee Berry</hw>, n naiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (qv)

<hw>Colonial Experience</hw>, n and used as adj sa squatting business, gaining his colonial experience Called also jackaroo (qv)

1890 Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Reformer,' p 95:

”You're the first `colonial experience' young fellow that it ever occurred to within e”

<hw>Colonial Goose</hw>, n a boned leg of e and onions In the early days the sheep was almost the sole animal food Mutton was then cooked and served in various ways to iold It is soold: old, enough to show in the dish

1860 Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol i p 222:

” they had not, to use a current phrase, `raised the colour'”

1890 Rolf Boldrewood `Miner's Right,' c xiv p 149:

”This is the fifth claim he has been in since he came here, and the first in which he has seen the colour”

1891 W Lilley, `Wild West of Tas a little tiold, he started for Mount Heemskirk”

<hw>Convictism</hw>, n the system of transportation of convicts to Australia and Van Diemen's Land, now many years abolished

1852 J West, `History of Tasmania,' vol i p 309: