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front limb or arm is attaclied, sloping backwards, bearing a large 

 broad five fingered hand ; the arm proper is only one inch long, 

 and the wrist, hand and fingers are four inches long, and the arm 

 is separated from the hand by three transverse yellow lines. The 

 posterior end of the body terminates in a tail 13 inches long, bent 

 towards the left, bluntly tapered to the extremity, and serrated on 

 either side with white and yellow for about two-thirds the 

 length. Where the tail joins the body, a posterior limb is 

 attached, sloping backwards, and measuring to the tips of the five 

 toes, eight inches ; the foot is separated, as in the front limb 

 at the wrist, from the leg by three cross yellow lines. The figure 

 is painted throughout with white pipeclay, and is margined at all 

 parts with a yellow line also of coloured clay. This figure is on 

 the inside of a sheet of bark 5 feet long. 



Fig. 11, plate 15, is the representation of a tortoise, 13 1 inches 

 lono" and 5 J inches wide, on a separate sheet ef bark, 2 feet 

 6 inches long- The groundwork of the figure is white ; the 

 outline red, and is profusely ornamented with coloured spots 

 and cross bars. 



Fig. 12, plate 16. The figure of a large reptile of the 

 lizard tribe by itself, on a sheet of bark 3 feet 6 inches long ; the 

 figure measures 3 feet 2 inches, and is three inches wide in the 

 middle ; the body, tail, and legs are white, edged with red ; the 

 diamond-shaped pattern on the body is depicted with red lines ; 

 down the centre of the body a red line runs from the neck to the 

 base of the tail, which is dotted with yellow ; the ground 

 colour of the head is red, and the fringe is yellow ; the transverse 

 lines at the junction of the head with the body, and the cross-pat- 

 tern, are red. The front limbs, which are represented as articu- 

 lated at the neck, are small, white, and edged with red ; they 

 have a proportionally very large hand and five long fingers, there 

 are two transverse red lines at the wrist. The posterior limbs are 

 larger than the anterior, painted in the same style, one has five 

 fingers, one four. There is a broad red band acros the base 

 of the body, and another where the arms are articulated 

 and one where the tail joins it. The tail is long, taper- 

 ing, white, lined with red, bent to the right, and has a fringe of 



