198 HIGHLY ORNATE BOOMERANGS, 



that the boomerang is unknown from Cape York to Port Essing- 

 ton, a distance covering about ten degrees of longitude. Spears 

 and clubs only are met with at Cape York and Port Essington. 

 This fact was also dwelt on by Mr, G. W. Earl,* and has been 

 more recently referred to by myselff in connection with the 

 Alligator River Tribes, Port Essington. 



(f) Single longitudinal line of ovals. — Dr. Bennett figured;}: a 

 fighting boomerang, without locality, bearing a line of oval figures 

 joined together. A somewhat similar form of ornament has also 

 been illustrated by myselfj from the tableland country to the 

 south of Port Essington, on a weapon collected by Mi\ H. 

 Stockdale. 



(g) The same, with scalloped edge. — This type is also known 

 from the Port Essington Tableland, and "consists of a median line 

 of elongately-oval figures, interrupted at the centre of the weapon 

 by a broad transverse bar, with a narrower bar at each end. The 

 convex and concave edges bear a festoon [or scalloped] pattern, 

 the festoons longitudinally grooved, and not necessarily facing one 

 another on opposite sides [edges]. The synclines of the festoon 

 outline are each distinguished by two transverse notches or 

 nicks."|| 



(h) Double longitudinal line of ovals, edges with semi-rhombs. — 

 The single line of oval figures, always elongate, is replaced by 

 two series, and cut in half by a median transverse band. The 

 margins bear an edging of continuous half-rhombs or diamond- 

 shaped figures. In each re-entering angle between the half- 

 rhombs there are two V-shaped marks or notches. Port Essington 

 Tableland.il 



(i) The same, edges vnth semi-ovals and semi-circles. — The lateral 

 zones in this case exhibit on the one irregular semi-ovals, and 



* Journ. R. Geogr. Soc, 1846, xvi. p. 247. 



tMacleay Mem. Vol. (Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales), 1893, p. 236, t. 32, f. 5. 



J Gatherings of a Naturalist, 1860, p. 291, f. 16. 



§ Macleay Mem. Vol. [loc. cit. ), t. 32, f . 6. 

 llMacleay Mem. Vol. (Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales), 1893, p. 2.37, t. 32, f. 1. 

 ir Macleay Mem. Vol. (Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales), 1893, p. 237, t. 32, f. 3. 



