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The whole community is divided into two groups — the members 

 of the Ippai and Kumbo sections forming the one, and the Kubbi 

 and Murri people constituting the other. The families composing 

 these groups bear the names of different animals, plants, or inani- 

 mate objects, which are called totems, a word copied by us from the 

 North American Indians. Among the totems of the people consti- 

 tuting the Ippai and Kumbo sections may be mentioned the follow- 

 ing : 



Wirroo (parrot). 



Emu, 



Native Dog, 



Codfish, 



Bream, 



Gray Frog, 



Common Fly, 



Spider, 



Plover, 



Curlew, 



Water Hen, 



Sun, 



Rain, 



North Wind, 



Birribil, 



Doomul, 



Gidyer, 



Myall, 



Kurrajong, 



Supple Jack, 



Tea Tree, 



Lime Tree, 



Nardoo (Bah), 



Pig-weed, 



Bilbee, 



Gray Kangaroo, 



Jewfish, 



Swan, 



Native Companion, 



Jew Lizard, 



Galah, 



Kangaroo Rat, 



Grasshopper, 



Cocklarina, 



Copi (Moganderra), 



Hail, 



Rainbow, 



West Wind, 



Numumbeera, 



Mulga, 



River Gum, 



Belar, 



Quandong, 



White wood, 



Hop Bush, 



Yams, 



Blue Grass, 



Sensitive Plant, 



Mulga Snake, 



Red Kangaroo, 



Bronze-wing Pigeon, 



Plain Turkey, 



Common Ants, 



Wood Duck, 



Native Cat, 



Top-knot Pigeon, 



Muscle, 



Bush Mouse, 



Blue Bonnet (parrot). 



Clouds, 



Lightning, 



Thunder, 



Cuttibundi, 



Carbeen, 



Blood wood. 



Leopard Tree, 



Grooee, 



Greenwattle, 



Wild Orange Tree, 



Lignum, 



Mitchell Grass. 



The under-mentioned totemic names may be enumerated as 

 belonging to some of the people comprising the Kubbi and Murri 

 sections : 



Ground Iguana, 

 Carpet Snake, . 

 Eagle Hawk, 

 Fish Hawk, 

 Tree Iguana, 

 Crow, 



Scrub Turkey, 

 Common Magpie, 



Padamelon, 

 Brown Snake, 

 White Cockatoo, 

 Dove, 

 Porcupine, 

 Death Adder, 

 Silvery Fish, 

 Black Magpie, 



Opossum, 

 Black Duck, 

 Pelican, 

 Bower Bird, 

 Black Snake, 

 Native Bee, 

 Flying Squirrel, 

 Green Frog, 



