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There appears to he a great dearth of literature relating to the Music 
and Songs of our Aborigines, beyond the few lines devoted to the subject by 
the late Mr. R. B. Smyth.^ Reference may now be made to a short paper by 
the Rev. G. W. Torrance, Music of the Australian Aboriginals,^ which serves 
as an appendix to Mr. A. W. Ilowitt’s paper on Songs and Song Makers, 
previously catalogued.* A chant will also be found in J. P. Townsend’s 
Rambles and Obsercations in New South Wales, ^c? But one of the most 
interesting results of my bibliographical researches has been the unearthing 
of four native melodies, arranged by J. Nathan, in an old and long lost-sight- 
of Sydney Magazine, called the Southern Nuphrosyne and Australian 
Miscellany} The songs are, “ Dital Dital Ba-loo-nai,” or the Battle Song ; 
“ War-goon-da Min-ya-rah,” a melody sung by the Maneroo Tribes; “Ah! 
Wy-a-boo-ka,” the Turtle Song, sung by the Wellington Valley Tribe; and 
“ Koorinda Braia,” or Song of Rejoicing.® 
The important subject of Craniology will be found referred to in two 
papers by the late M. de Miklouho Maclay — Remarks on a Skull of an 
Aboriginal from the Lachlan District,’^ 2 b Very Dolichocephalic Skull of 
an Australian Aboriginal a memoir on the Osteology and Reculiarities of 
the Tasmanians, ^c. f a report by Sir MMliam Turner on the Human Crania, 
8fc., collected during the Voyage of M.M.S. Challenger^’ and an old 
memoir by S. G. Morton, Remarks on the Skulls of two Natives of New 
MollandR 
Several interesting Notes on Canoes will be found under the names of 
Messrs. D. Cooper, O. W. Brierly, A. W, Howitt, and the late Prof. J. Bete 
J ukes, taken chiefly from the A thenceum. 
The Boomerang, also, affording an ever interesting discussion to the 
Physicist and Mathematician, Avill be found referred to in papers by C. C. 
Parry, H. H. Higgins, A. W. Howitt, and H. J. Eddy. 
To those interested in the use of Narcotics by the Aborigines the 
papers by I)r. J. Bancroft, of Brisbane, The Tituri Toison,^^ and Tituri and 
Tobacco f will be found interesting. It will be well, in conjunction with 
these, to consult Sir E. von Mueller’s observations on this peculiar plant.^® 
* Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, II, p. 2CG. ^ Journ. Aiitlirop. Inst. Gt. Brit, and Ii'eland, 1887, XVI, 
p. .335. this Catalogue, Part I, p. 15 ; see also H. L. Roth, ibid, p. 2.5. ^8vo., London, 1849. * 4to., 
Sydney. = Loc. cit. pp. 109-132. ® Proc. Linn. Soc. X. S. Wales for 1883 [1884], VIII, Pt. 3, p. 395. 
' Loc. cit., p. 401. ® Nat. Verhand. Hollandsch. Maatscli. Wetensch. Haarlem, 1874, II, No. 4. ° “ Challenger” 
Report, 1884, X, pp. 130 ; Ibid, 1886, XVI, pp. 136. *» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, 1841-43 [1843], 
I, p. 292. Trans. Phil. Soc. Queensland, 1859-72, 42nd article. Ibid, 1878-82, III, 2nd article. 
Smyth’s Aborigines of Victoria, 1878, I, p. 222, note. 
