Citations:cowfinch

A rendering of, a bird name invented by the character Ellie in Thomas Mann's "Disorder and Early Sorrow".
 * 1936 Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, translated from the German of Thomas Mann, "Disorder and Early Sorrow" p.90 in Mario and The Magician: & other stories, Random House 2017 ISBN 9781473559387
 * Sometimes she teaches him, instructs him upon the birds in the picture-book and tells him their proper names: "This is a chaffinch, Buddy, this is a bullfinch, this is a cowfinch."