): Wirgan,--bird named by us the friar. Meston,in the `Sydney Bulletin,' April 18, 1896, says it comes fromthe old Brisbane blacks, who called the pied crow shrike(Strepera graculina) tchaceroo, a gabbling andgarrulous bird. Maori name for the Dog-fish(q. 54: Kaka--a bird of the parrot kind; much larger than any otherNew Zealand parrot.
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