170 R. H. MATHEWS. 
plover, ground iguana, black opossum, emu, bee, native companion, 
yam, pelican, porcupine, perch.’ 
The Wirroong and Womboong sections—called on New England 
Irroong and Imboong—have the following totems amongst others: 
kangaroo, dingo, jew lizard, turtle, carpet snake, crow, white 
cockatoo, platypus, eaglehawk, locust, death-adder. 
Kurpoong corresponds to Murri, Marroong to Kubbi, Wirroong 
to Ippai, and Womboong is synonymous with Kumbo. In com- 
paring the above totems with those of the Kamilaroi, it is noticed 
that some which belong to the first pair of sections, are found 
inserted in the second pair of the Kamilaroi, and vice versa. I 
specially drew the attention of the blacks to this difference at the 
time I collected the details, but they could not give any explan- 
ation of it. I have before found that certain totems which 
belonged to one section in a certain district, were stated to belong 
to another section among a tribe occupying a different part of the 
country. 
On the south of the Hunter River, extending thence to the 
Hawkesbury, we find scattered remnants of the Darkinung tribe,” 
whose territory embraces the country watered by the Colo, Mac- 
donald and Wollombi Rivers, with their numerous tributaries. 
This tribe has uterine descent, and is divided into four sections, 
whose names correspond with those of the Kamilaroi, with the 
exception that Murri is called Bya*:— 
A Man Marries. The Children are 
Bya Butha Ippai and Ippatha 
Kubbi Ippatha ~ Satis Butha 
Ippai Kubbitha Murri and Matha 
_ Kun mbo Matha Kubbi and _Kubbitha 
1 Natives belonging to the Hastings and Manning Rivers have told me 
that in their tribes the children _—— the — of the father, but they 
take the companion, or fellow, section name that of their mother. 
This will be further dealt with i in another martes 
2 «The Burbung of the a Tribes ” is described by me in Proc. 
s ay 
3 Bya was also used inste or] of, or interchangeably with, Murri in all 
the tribes from Wollombi almost to Inverell, a distance of about two 
hundred and fifty miles 
