<hw>Galah</hw>, <i>n.</i> a bird.(The accent is now placed on the second syllable.) Aboriginal name for the <i>Cacatua roseicapilla</i>, Vieill., the <i>Rose-breasted Cockatoo</i>. See <i>Cockatoo</i>. With the first syllable compare last syllable of <i>Budgerigar</i> (q.v.)
1890. `The Argus,' Sept. 20, p. 13, col. 5:
"They can afford to screech and be merry, as also the grey, pink-crested galahs, which tint with the colours of the evening sky a spot of grass in the distance."
1890. Lyth, `Golden South,' c. xiv. p. 127:
"The galahs, with their delicate grey and rose-pink plumage, are the prettiest parrots."
1891. Francis Adams, `John Webb's End,' p. 191:
"A shrieking flock of galahs, on their final flight before they settled to roost, passed over and around him, and lifting up his head, he saw how all their grey feathers were flushed with the sunset light, their coloured breasts deepening into darkest ruby, they seemed like loosed spirits."
<hw>Gallows</hw>, <i>n.</i> Explained in quotation. Common at all stations, where of course the butchering is done on the premises.
1866. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 64:
"The gallows, a high wooden frame from which the carcases of the butchered sheep dangle."