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are apparent in the table. The women never change out of the 

 group to which they belong, but pass successively through each 

 of the four sections of which it is composed. Taking the women 

 of group A as an example, it is shown that Ningulum is the 

 mother of Palyarinya, Palyarinya of Nooralum, Nooralum of 

 Bungarinya, and Bungarinya of Ningulum, and this series is con- 

 tinually repeated, each section name reappearing in the fifth 

 generation. Succession is counted through the females — the 

 women of one group producing the men of the other. 



New South Wales Divisions. 

 The Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi communities are divided into the 

 four undermentioned sections, the names of the women in each 

 section being different from those of the men. For example, in 

 some families all the sons are Murri, and all the daughters Matha- 

 in others they are Kubbi and Kubbitha; in others Ippai and 

 Ippatha; and again in others they are Kumbo and Butha. These 

 names were first reported by the Rev. Wm. Ridley in 1853 as 

 occurring among the Kamilaroi tribes on the Namoi and other 

 rivers. 1 Since then I have reported the same divisional names 

 among the Darkinung 2 tribe of the Wollombi district, and among 

 the Moorawarrie of the Culgoa and adjacent rivers. I have also 

 observed four divisions with the same nomenclature among the 

 Wailwan, Uollaroi, Wallaroi, Pickumbul, and Ukumbul tribes. 



The intermarriage of the sections, and names of the offspring 

 can be more clearly understood by means of a table : 



Husband Wife Offspring 



Murri Kumbo Ippai 



Kubbi Ippai Kumbo 



Kumbo Murri Kubbi 



Ippai Kubbi Murri 



From particulars supplied by Mr. Chas. G. N. Lockhart, the 

 Rev. L. Fison, in 1872, states that among the Darling River tribe 



1 Studies in Ancient History, Second Series (1896), by J. P. McLennan, 

 p. 289; also, Kamilaroi etc., (1806), p. 38. 



2 Journ. Eoy. Soc. N. S. Wales, xxxi., 170, 171. 



