wyla
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English
Etymology
Likely from a Pama-Nyungan language; compare Awabakal waiila (“black cockatoo”).
Noun
wyla
- The yellow-tailed black cockatoo or funereal cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus funereus, a bird native to Australia.
- 1952, Encyclopædia Britannica, A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, page 912:
- The dark-plumaged funereal cockatoo or wyla (Calyptorhynchus funereus) is another Australian species.
See also
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Calyptorhynchus funereus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References
- “Wyla”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Lancelot Threlkeld (1892) An Australian Language as Spoken by the Awabakal, the People of Awaba, Or Lake Macquarie