^^^98.] MATHEWS — DIVISION'S OF QUBTfeN'SLAND ABORICrlNKS. 331 



The names of the groups Dceajec and Karpeun, and the equiva- 

 lence of the four sections to those of the Kamilaroi tribes, have 

 also been first reported by me. 



No, 2. The Kogai-Yuipera Nation. 



The name is adopted trom the Kogai of the Maranoa and 

 Yuipera of Mackay, the two tribes whose divisions were first made 

 known in this area. The immense extent of country covered by 

 the tribes and communities constituting this nation can be unlTier- 

 stood better by a reference to the map than by any description of 

 It. In a former paper, to which the reader is referred, *■ I detailed 

 the original work done by the Rev. William Ridley, Mr. R. B„ 

 Smyth, Mr. E. M. Curr, and Mr. E. Palmer, among different tribes 

 of this organization. 



I have traced the same section names among the tribes of the 

 Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo, Barcoo, Thomson, Diamantina, and oth^r 

 rivers, thus covering all the country in which the section or class 

 names had not been particularized by previous writers. The fol- 

 lowing are a few out of a large number of tribes included in my 

 inquiries : The Gnoree tribe of the Middle Warrego, the Murgoan 

 of the Bulloo, the Moothaburra and Birria of the Thomson, the 

 Koonkerri of the Barcoo, the Kurrawulla of the Diamantina, the 

 Banthamurra of the Wilson, etc. 



In all the tribes of this Nation the people are divided into four 

 sections, called Woongo, Koobaroo, Bunburri and Koorgilla, or 

 else mere variations of these names. The people appertaining to 

 the Woongo and Koobaroo sections together form a group called 

 Wootaroo, and the Bunburri and Koorgilla sections constitute the 

 group Yungaroo. In my previous article already referred to,' I gave 

 a tabular arrangement of the groups and sections of the Yuipera 

 tribe at Mackay, as reported by Mr. R. B, Smyth, in 1878, but as 

 the names are slightly different in the interior, it will be better to 

 supply a new table, as follows : 



^Joiirn. Roy. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxii, 78-So. 

 '^Journ. Roy. Soc. N. S. IVales, xxxii, 79. 



