202 MATHEWS — AUSTRALIAN ROCK CARVINGS. [May 7, 



close proximity to each other on the western side of the cleared 

 road leading from Pymble along the dividing range between Cowan 

 and Cockle Creeks, about half a mile southerly from " Bobbin" Trig- 

 onometrical Station, in the Parish of Gordon/ 



The largest emu" is six feet three inches from the beak to the end 

 of the tail, and is five feet high, in the attitude of looking for food 

 or at something on the ground ; and although the neck is rather too 

 short, it is a very fair picture of an emu. Only one leg is delineated, 

 and the foot is shown in continuation of the leg. 



The other emu, which is much smaller, measures three feet two 

 inches from the beak to the tail, and stands three feet five inches 

 high. In this drawing the eye has been added, and one leg with 

 its foot is delineated in the same way as that of the large emu. 



Between the last two birds is a small one, fifteen inches from tail 

 ■to head, and fourteen inches from pinion to pinion. Were it not 

 for the presence of wings and the shortness of the neck and legs we 

 might suppose this to be intended for a young emu to complete the 

 picture. As it is, however, it appears to represent some bird upon 

 the wing. 



Fig. 30. This carving is also on the continuation of the same 

 flat rock which contains Fig. 29. The figure measures two feet four 

 inches in extreme length, one foot two inches across the fore feet 

 and one foot four inches across the hind feet. The head is four 

 inches long and the tail nine inches. This drawing appears to be 

 intended for a flying squirrel, as it resembles that animal more 



^Besides Figs. 29 to 37, inclusive, shown in this plate and now described, there 

 are on the same cluster of rocks some other carvings which are described by me 

 elsewhere, the positions of which are as follows : About five paces from the snout 

 of Fig. 31 is a group representing a man and vi'oman in the attitude of dancing. 

 Near them is a native <'dilly bag" and several human footmarks cut into the 

 rock. For a description of this group of carvings see my paper on "Aboriginal 

 Rock Paintings and Carvings in N. S. Wales," published in /^roc. Roy. Soc. Vic- 

 toria, Vol. vii (N. S.), pp. 143-156, PI. 9, Fig. 8. 



About twenty-five or thirty paces in a southwesterly direction from the last- 

 mentioned carvings is another group representing two men and two emus. For 

 a drawing of this group, see Fig. 3, PI. 2, in my paper on the "Rock Pictures of 

 the Australian Aborigines," published in the Proceedings of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society of Australasia, Queensland, Vol. xi, pp. 86-105. 



^A group of six emus are represented in Fig. i, PI. 2, in my paper on "Aus- 

 tralian Rock Pictures," published in The A/nerican Anthropologist, viii, 

 268-278. 



