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ing of the four sections Kurbo, Wombo, Marro, and Wirro. Since 

 then I discovered the same divisions, with some modifications of 

 sound and spelling, among the tribes of the Clarence, Kempsey, 

 Manning, Hastings and Hunter Rivers, with their numerous 

 affluents. I also found similar divisions in the New England 

 tribes, but two of the female sectional names were entirely different. 

 I have elsewhere given the sectional names and list of totems, of 

 all the tribes referred to in this paragraph with their rules of 

 marriage and descent. 1 I was moreover the first to establish the 

 equivalence of the sections to those of the Kamilaroi and Wirad- 

 juri communities, 2 



Queensland Divisions. 

 The Rev. Wm. Ridley gave the names of the four divisions of 

 the Kogai tribe, on the Balonne, Maranoa and Coogoon Rivers, 

 with the laws of marriage and descent as follows : — 3 



Husband. 



Wife 



Sons 



Daughters 



Wungo 



Unburrigun 



Urgilla 



Urgillagun 



Obur 



Urgillagun 



Unburri 



Unburrigun 



Unburri 



Woongogun 



Obur 



Oburrugun 



Urgilla 



Oburrugun 



Wungo 



Wungogun 



Mr. Ridley was also the first to draw attention to the equivalence 

 of the sectional names in different tribes. For example, he showed 

 that Wungo of the Maranoa tribe was equivalent to Murri of the 

 Kamilaroi ; Obur to Kubbi, Urgilla to Ippai, and Unburri to 

 Kumbo. 4 It may be as well to explain that when a certain section 

 in one tribe holds the same place in the system as a section in 

 another tribe, such sections are said to correspond to each other, 

 or in other words, to be equivalent, as in the above example. 5 



When Mr. R. B. Smyth was compiling his work on the 

 aborigines, published in 1878, one of his correspondents, Mr. 

 George Bridgman, Superintendent of Aboriginal Stations, near 

 Mackay, who had seen Mr. Ridley's classification, reported that 



1 Journ. Eoy. Soc, N. S. Wales, xxxi., 168 - 171. 2 Ibid., xxxi., 169, 170. 

 3 Kamilaroi and other Australian Languages, (1866) p. 38. 4 Ibid., p. 38. 

 s Proc. Eoy. Geog. Soc. Aust. (Q.), x., 31. 



