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From: "roger curnow" <>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:47:39 +1100
this is what the OED has to say
 
gangan

("g&N%g&n)  Also gang-gang.  [Native word.] 

   An Australian cockatoo (see quot. 1898).

   1833 C. Sturt 2 Exped. S. Australia I. Introd. 38 Upon the branches+the gangan, and various kinds of pigeons were feeding.  1891 E. Kinglake Australian at Home 124 You hear the sweet note of the wonga pigeon or the hoarse scream of the ganggang.  1898 Morris Austral Eng., Gang-gang, or Gan-gan, the aboriginal word for the bird Callocephalon galeatum+so called from its note; a kind of cockatoo, grey with a red head, called also Gang-gang Cockatoo.  1965 Austral. Encycl. II. 440/1 The smallest cockatoo is the gang-gang+of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 

 

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