
ABORIGINES OF TRE SOUTH-EAST OF SouTH AUSTRALIA 483 
Mir-an, ‘‘the cockatoo parrot with fish-coloured feathers,’”’ This is evidently the 
Gang-Gang Cockatoo (Callecephalon fimbriatum), an interésting early 
locality record. ’ 
Crimson Rosella (Platycereus elegans), 3 to 5 eges. 
Eastern Rosella (P. eximius). 5 to 6 eggs. 
Kal-nigal, koo-a-da, parrots. Probably the above two species, 
Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas), Koo-art-ung, a langhing jackass. 8 to 4 eggs, 
Welcome Swallow (Hirumdo neozena). Natives at Cape Buffon, Mr. D. Sebulz’s 
relatives informed him, would spend hours patiently snaring swallows for 
food. This method of snaring birds with long stick and string’ noose at its 
end has been described earlier in this paper. The swallow referred to was 
the Welcome Swallow, which may frequent seaside cliffs and probably often 
nested on the sheltered walls before human habitations supplied more satis- 
factory nesting places, 
Scarlet Robin (Petrvica multicolor), Tat-kana, a robin redhreast. Too small 
to be worth eating, 
Noisy Miner (Myzantha melanocephala). Once common, now rare, 3 to 4 eggs. 
Little Wattle Bird (Anthochaera chrysoptera). Common. 3 eri, 
Red Wattle Bird (A. carwnowlata). Now rare, 2 eggs. 
Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis). Common. 2 to 3 eggs. 
Australian Raven (Corvus coroncides). Wa, 4 to 5 eggs. 
Little Crow (C. bennetti), 8 to 5 eggs. 
Black-winged Currawong (Strepera melanoptera), Kil-en, a black magpie. Rare, 
3 eggs, 
Grey Butcher Bird (Cracticus torquatus), Common, Woi-ong, the Whistling 
day. 4 eggs, 
White-backed Magpie (Gymnorhina leuconota), Toal, the magpie. 4 to 5 eges, 
REPTILEs, 
The Tortoise is said to be numerous in the waters near Rendelzham, The 
species has recently been identified, and proves to be the Long-necked Tortoise 
(Chelodina longicallis), whose weight is said to reach 9 pounds 4 ounces, A 
apecimen, or specimens, of the Saw-toothed Tortoise (Emydura latisternus) was 
reported by A. Zeitz as oceurring before 1891 in the Mt. Gambier Lakes. The 
Long-necked. Tortoise, though it was distasteful as food to Europeans, was defi- 
nitely eaten by the natives on the Murray and so presumably by those in the 
South-Hast, 
Mrs, Smith gives the words Kar-im and Ngoon-ap as names evidently of 
different kinds of lizards which, as they possessed a name, were probably used for 
food. 
The following list of lizards and snakes whieh probably occur in the South- 
Hast were large enough to serve ag sources of food and so undoubtedly would 
have been used by the natives, At Blackfellows’ Caves one of us tried the flesh 
of a Tiger Snake, but found, very little on it, There is a small amount of flesh 
on each side of the backbone. The tail probably contains a considerable amount 
of meat, but unfortunately was not sampled, The lengths given are mostly from 
Waite’s Handbook of the Reptiles of South Australia. The lengths and weights 
of the two Tiger Snakes and the Sleeping Lizard were obtained during our recent 
trip to the South-Hast. Information does not seem available as ta whether the 
common goana was found in the South-East, and, if so, whether it was abundant. 
The Carpet Snake (Python spilotes) certainly did not occur- 
