Lang, `Cooksland,' p. 265: The plaintive chirp of the mina. See Holy Dollar. , older colonists New South Wales.
Bentham considers this may have been introduced. 202: The name it vulgarly bears is a corruption of the French wordJacasser, `to chatter,' and the correct form is the `LaughingJacasse. 49: Can't you get your canaries off the track here for abouta quarter of an hour, and let my mob of cattle pass ?
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