288 R. H. MATHEWS. 



Nyaui, the sun, has the bandicoot, moon, kangaroo-rat, 

 black and white magpie, opossum, ngiirt-hawk, gum-tree 

 grub, wattle-tree grub, planet Venus. Kuttyaga, the white 

 crestless cockatoo, has substantially the same totems as 

 Nyaui. 



Burt Wirrimal, the white owl, has a number of totems, 

 but I was unable to classify them. 



Wartwurt is the heat of the sun at noon, and has bui- 

 wurrak or grey-headed eagle-hawk, carpet-snake, smoker 

 parrot, shell parrot, murrakan-hawk, dikkomur snake, ring- 

 neck parrot, mirndai snake, shingle-back lizard. 



Wiirt-pattyangal, or shadow of Pattyangal is related to 

 Wartwurt and Durrimurak. 



The following are some further totems of Gurogity, but 

 I could not ascertain the castes among which they are 

 apportioned : — quail, mosquito, wallaby, tree iguana, mussel. 



The names of the clans into which the Gamaty phratry 

 is subdivided, with my compass bearings of the miyurs, are 

 as follow : — Durrimurak, and its miyur N. 15° E. Wuran, 

 with the same azimuth as Durrimurak. Muiwillak bears 

 N. 5° E. Dyallan, S. 5° E. Pattyangal has a miyur situ- 

 ated S. 40° W. Wanguguliak, S. 20° E. Burriwan's miyur 

 bears N. 40° E. The totems attached to each of these 

 clans are as under : — Durrimurak has the warrungurra or 

 large turtle, musk duck, black duck, honey, native bee, 

 gatgat bird, ground iguana, death-adder, quandong tree, 

 biergalk tree. 



The feminine equivalents of any of these clans are 

 obtained by adding gurk to the masculine name. 



Wuran, the black cockatoo, has dyirkok hawk, pine tree, 

 grey-box tree. Muiwillak, a black snake, has the darker 

 emu, red-gum tree, water-mallee tree, all reeds. Dyallan, 

 a whipsnake, has the swan, dog, water, larger crow, white- 



