Major Mitchell

English

Noun

Major Mitchell (plural Major Mitchells)

1. A Major Mitchell's cockatoo.
   • 2012, Aubrey Manning, Marian Stamp Dawkins, An Introduction to Animal Behaviour, page 47:

     Three Major Mitchells are on the left with their foster sibling, a galah, the latter's mother having laid an egg in the Major Mitchell's nest. All are marked with conspicuous wing tags which allowed them to be followed in the wild.