twenty-eight

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

another name for the Yellow-collared Parrakeet. Named from its note.See Parrakeet.

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. v. pl. 19:

« Platycercus Semitorquatus, Quoy and Gaim.,Yellow-collared Parrakeet; Twenty-eight Parrakeet, Colonists ofSwan River. It often utters a note which, from its resemblanceto those words, has procured for it the appellation of`twenty-eight' Parrakeet from the Colonists; the last word ornote being sometimes repeated five or six times in succession.»

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