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Mr. E. M. Curr reported that the name Mallera was used on the 

 Belyando and other rivers instead of Yungaroo, and I have found 

 the same name on the Warrego, Thomson and elsewhere. 



As every man and woman in the community bears the name of 

 an animal, or some other natural object, it follows that there will 

 be an aggregate of diverse totems known by the collective title of 

 Wootaroo, and a corresponding variety of totems will be distributed 

 under the distinguishing name of Yungaroo or Mallera. The 

 tribes of this organization are so widespread that I shall not at 

 present occupy the space to enumerate the lengthy lists of totem 

 names collected by me in the various districts, but will reserve this 

 task for a future occasion. 



Although the section names are practically the same over the 

 vast territory shown as No. 2 on the map, yet the dialects and cus- 

 toms of the people are more or less diverse in different parts of it. 

 Throughout a wide zone of the western end of this nation, all the 

 males are circumcised, and other rites are performed, which have 

 been described by me elsewhere. The line from A to B on the 

 map separates those tribes who practice circumcision from those 

 who do not. Such a boundary would necessarily be varied slightly 

 at different times by conquest, or by the intermarriage of neighbor- 

 ing tribes on either side. 



The southwest and west boundaries of Queensland, separating 

 that colony from South Australia, being arbitrary geodetic lines, 

 cannot be expected to coincide with the boundaries of the aborig- 

 inal nations. For the sake of simplicity, however, the Queensland 

 boundary has, for the present, been adopted as the southwest limit 

 of the Kogai-Yuipera people. I am preparing a map dealing with 



