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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