Mungahran HAWK.
Burrahwahn, a big sandhill rat, now extinct here, claims—
Mien DINGO
Dalleerin A LIZARD
Gaengaen WILD LIME
Willerhderh, or
Douran Douran NORTH WIND
Bralgah NATIVE COMPANION.
Buckandee, native cat kin, claim—
Buggila LEOPARD WOOD
Bean MYALL
Bunbundoolooey A LITTLE BROWN BIRD
Dunnee Bunbun A VERY LARGE GREEN PARROT
Dooroongul HAIRY CATERPILLAR.
Amongst other totems were once the Bralgah, Native Companion, and Dibbee, a sort of sandpiper, but their kins are quite extinct as far as our blacks are concerned; the birds themselves are still plentiful. The Bralgah birds have a Boorah ground at the back of our old horse-paddock, a smooth, well-beaten circle, where they dance the grotesque dances peculiar to them, which are really most amusing to watch, somewhat like a set of kitchen lancers into which some dignified dames have got by mistake, and a curious mixture is the dance of dignity and romping.
The totem kins numerically strongest with us were the Dinewans, Beewees, Bohrahs, and Gouyous. Further back in the country, they tell me, the crow, the eaglehawk, and the bees were original totems, not multiplex ones, as with us.
It may be as well for those interested in the marriage law puzzles to state that Dinewans, Bohrahs, Douyous, and Doolungayers are always
Kumbo Hippi
Bootha Hippitha.
That Moodai, Gouyou, Beewee, Maira, Yubbah are always