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Full grown young females are not allowed to eat 
the male opossum, the wallabie (linkara), the red 
kangaroo, the fish kelapko, the black duck, the 
widgeon, the whistling duck, the coote, the native 
companion, two turtles (rinka and tung-kanka), the 
emu, the emu’s egg, the snake (yarl-dakko), cray- 
fish which may have deformed claws, the female or 
the young from the pouch of any kangaroo, the 
musk duck, the white crane, the bandicoot, the wild 
dog, two kinds of fish (toor-rue and toitchock), the 
shag (yarrilla), the water mole (neewitke), the 
ground grub (ronk), the vegetable food eaten by the 
emu (war-itch), &c. When menstruating, they are 
not allowed to eat fish of any kind, or to go near the 
water at all ; it being one of their superstitions, that if 
a female, in that state, goes near the water, no 
success can be expected by the men in fishing. 
Fish that are taken by the men diving under the 
cliffs, and which are always females about to deposit 
their spawn, are also forbidden to the native women. 
Old men and women are allowed to eat anything, 
and there are very few things that they do not eat. 
Among the few exceptions are a species of toad, and 
the young of the wombat, when very small, and 
before the hair is well developed. 
