[980] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 135. The word meaning totem is written thundung by Howitt.
[981] Strehlow, I, pp. 1-2 and II, p. 59. It will be remembered that, among the Arunta, the maternal totem was quite probably the real totem at first.
[982] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 555.
[983] Ibid., pp. 546, 560.
[984] Ridley, Kamilaroi, pp. 136, 156. He is represented in this form during the initiation rites of the Kamilaroi. According to another legend, he is a black swan (L. Parker, More Aust. Leg. Tales, p. 94).
[985] Strehlow, I, p. 1.
[986] Brough Smyth, I, pp. 423-424.
[987] Nat. Tr., p. 492.
[988] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 128.
[989] Brough Smyth, I, pp. 417-423.