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guished feature, I therefore propose naming paedomatronyms. 

 Thus every tribe has its four paedomatronymic groups, which 

 occasionally, owing to the presence of feminine suffix leu. in 

 the Bockhampton area) give rise to a superficial appearance of 

 there being eight. The Pitta-Pitta tribe at Boulia speaks of 

 these four paedomatronyms as Koopooroo, Woongko, Koorkilla, 

 Bunl)uri, the two first together constituting all the Ootaroo, the 

 two last all the Pakoota ; of course if the blood-mother is a 

 Koopooroo, her offspring, irrespective of sex, is a Woongko ; 

 similarly, a Koorkilla blood-mother will have Bunburi children 

 <^c. Identical paedomatronymic names are in use among the 

 blacks of the Upper Cloncurry and Upper Flinders Districts, 

 among the ]\Iiorli and Cioa people of the Middle and Upper 

 Diamantina, at Roxburgh on the Middle Georgina, and on the 

 Eastern Coast of the Continent certainly from Cooktown to 

 Broadsound. The Kalkadoon (of the Leichhardt-Selwyn 

 Ranges) speak of these four groups as Patingo, Kunggilungo, 

 Marinungo; Toonbeungo ; the Miubbi (extending from Donor's 

 Hills to Conobie, across to the Eastern side of the Lcichhardt 

 River) call them Badingo, Jimmilingo, Youingo, Maringo ; the 

 Woolangama (at Normanton, but originally from between Spear 

 Creek and Croydon) know them as Rara, Ranya, Awunga, Loora; 

 the Taroombul (Rockhampton), Duppil (Gladstone), Karoonbara 

 (Rosewood and Yaamba), Rakivira (Yeppoon), Bouwiwara 

 (^Marlborough), Koomabara (Torilla) etc., name them Kooepul, 

 Koodala, Karalbara, Munnul for the males, and Koopulan, 

 Koodaliin, Karalbaran, Munnulan for the females; the Koreng- 

 Koreng (of the Miriam Vale, south of Gladstone) call them 

 Deroin, Balgoyn, Buuda, liarung. 



Concerning this quartet of paedomatronymic groups, a con- 

 siderable amount of infornuition is available ; it may be tabulated 

 as follows. 



[<i) In North- West Central (i)ueensland, every individual, as 

 soon as he or she passes the first initiation ceremony, is forbidden 

 to eat — not necessarily to kill — certain animals, each paedoma- 

 tronymic group having its own special fauna that are prohibited. 

 Not one, but several animals are tabooed to each paedomatronym : 

 in no case, notwithstanding very careful search, did I find any 



