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In Two Representative Tribes of Queenslayrd, page 142, iir 

 speaking of the distinction of light blood and dark blood as applied 

 to the phratries, I stated that while I had been informed that 

 Dilbai was the light blood phratry, and Kopaitthin the dark 

 blood, " at Bararabah there was difference of opinion as to which 

 was which." On my visit to the country of the Wakka and Kabi 

 tribes last year, I made a point of questioning the older natives 

 about the blood distinction, and found absolute agreement that 

 Dilbai was light and Kopaitthin dark blood. 



Among the Kangulu tribe, between the Mackenzie and the 

 Lower Dawson Rivers, Yungaru corresponds to Dilbai of the tribes 

 further south, and Wutaru to Kopaitthin.* In a paper on the 

 " Origin of the Australian Phratries," contributed to the Journal 

 of the Royal Anthropological I?istitute, in 1910, I showed that 

 Yungaru meant white cockatoo, and Wutaru crow. So that the 

 colours of the birds after which the phratries were named corre- 

 sponded to the light and dark blood of the natives of the Wide 

 Bay and Burnett districts. 



In that paper I suggested that Dilbai might be a corruption 

 of Kilpara, the name of one of the phratries of the Darling River 

 tribes, and that Kopaitthin was a variant of Kapaitch (black 

 cockatoo), the name of one of the phratries in the west of Victoria 

 and the contiguous portion of South Australia. 



Elsewhere, I have given the meanings of the four class names 

 as imparted to me by the chief man of the communities of the Kabi 

 tribe, who occupied the hill country west of Maryborough, as 

 follows : — 



Bonda, kangaroo; Dherwain, emu; Balkuin, kangaroo; 

 Barang, emu. 



His explanation of the first two is confirmed by the fact that 

 these terms are the names for kangaroo and emu in the Kamilroi 

 dialect, as spoken at Barraba, in New South Wales. The accuracy 

 of his explanation of the last two class-names is uncertain. It is 

 worthy of mention that natives whom I met at Barambah belonging 

 to the tribes who used the above class-names (Banjur or Bandyur 

 being substituted by some for Balkuin) were ignorant of their 

 meaning; it had been forgotten and lost. 



The first two class-names mentioned above were used by the 

 Kangulu tribe, which inhabited the country between the Mackenzie 

 and the Lower Dawson Rivers. Hence from the most northerly part 

 where they occurred as class-names, with apparently the original 

 meaning unknown, to the point where they were used as every- 

 day terms for kangaroo and emu is about 500 miles in a direct 

 line. It seems highly improbable that the names travelled north. 



* Howitt, loc: eit., p. 109. 



