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to the Aborigines. When the Loan eggs are coming into 

 season on earth, they are going out of season with her. When 

 she sits with the sun the Loan eggs are in season. 



Totyarguil (Aquilla), the son of Neilloan, and who, while 

 bathing was killed by the Bunyips, his remains were afterwards' 

 rescued by his uncle Collenbitchick. The stars on either side 

 are his two wives. 



Karik Karik (the two stars in the end of the tail of Scorpio), 

 , a male and a female Falcon. 



Berm-berm-gie (two large stars in the fore-legs of Centaurus). 

 Two brothers who were noted for their courage and destructive- 

 ness, and who spear and kill Tchingal. The eastern stars of 

 Crux are the points of the spears that have passed through him, 

 the one at the foot through his neck, and that in the arm 

 through his rump. 



Tchingal (Emu), (the dark space between the fore-legs of 

 Centaurus and Crux), who pursues Bunya until he takes 

 refuge in a tree, and who is afterwards killed by Berm-berm-gle. 



Bunya (Oppossum), (star in the head of Crux), who is pur- 

 sued by Tchingal, and who, in his fright lays his spears at the 

 foot of a tree and runs up it for safety. For such cowardice he 

 became an oppossum. 



Tourtchinboionggerra (Cornua Berenices), a flock of small birds 

 drinking rain water, which has lodged in a hollow in the fork 

 of a tree. (Each star had a separate name, but, through the 

 intercourse of the aborigines with the white people, the names 

 are forgotten.) 



Kourt-chin (Magellan Clouds). — The larger cloud a male, and 

 the lesser cloud a female Native Companion. 



Warring (Galaxy). — The smoke of the fires of the Nurrum- 

 bunguttias. Another account is, that only a part of the Galaxy 

 is the smoke of the fires of the Nurrumbunguttias, and that the 

 other part is two Mindii, enormous snakes which made the 

 Murray (Millee). 



Kulkunbulla (the Stars in the Belt and Scabbard of Orion). — 

 A number of young men dancing. (A coroborree.) 



Larnankurrk (Pleiades), a group of young women playing to 

 Kulkunbulla. 



Gellarlec (Kose, or Eos Cockatoo (Aldebaran), an old man 

 chanting, and beating time to Kulkunbulla and Larnankurrk. 



Warepil (Male Eagle) (Sirius), a chief of the Nurrumbung- 

 uttias, and brother to war. 



Collowgullouric Warepil (Female Eagle) (Rigel), wife of 

 Warepil. 



