these relations meant, and suggests that among the Greeks there 

 were tribes with totetus—BuW, Boar, Lion, Snake, Ant, and Dragon 

 tribes, just as there are tribes named after animals among the 



The prevalence of the designation of men bj- names of the lower 

 animals is amply illustrated in the Old Testament scriptures. 

 Take for instance the case of Jacob blessing his children* where 

 Judah is a " lion's whelp," Issachar " a strong ass," Dan "a serpent 

 by the way an adder in the path," Naphtali "a hind let loose," 

 Benjamin " a ravening wolf." In the book of Danielf the Empires 

 are typified by four beasts. There is also the common appellation 



countries. The eagle has always bee 



scarcely matter of surprise that the king of l)irds so swift and 



fearless should be chosen as the emblem of a conquering people 



Standing in close relation to these myths is the division of 

 Australian comnmnities into two classes, represented by the- 

 •^aglehawk and the crow respectively, this dual division and par- 

 ticular representation being almost universal in Victoria, and 

 extending with modifications into New South Wales and South. 

 Australia. In central and northern Victoria the eaglehawk and 

 the crow are the only names of the two classes. Throughout 

 much of the watershed of the Darling and the Murray on the 

 authority of Mr. A. W. Howitt,t the eaglehawk is one of the 

 pnmary class names, the second name being usually the crow. In 

 the Turra tribe in South Australia bordering on the south-west of 

 > lotoria the .seal takes the place of the crow. Yukembruk a class- 

 '^auie on the Upper Murray and at Maneroo means crow. Bearing 

 upon this is the tradition of the blacks on the Lower Darling first 

 placed on record by Mr. C. G. N. Lock hart in his annual report 

 to the Government of New South Wales in 1852 or 1853, cited 

 J-y Mr. Curr.t The tradition is that the first black man on the 

 ^*rlmg had two wives Kilparra and Mokwarra. The sons of 

 the one married the daughters of the other, and the class-names, 

 were inherited from the mothers. At King George Sound among 

 »■ community of the Meenung blacks, the white cockatoo is sub- 

 stituted for the eaglehawk as one of the primary divisions, the 



