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usual manner. Infanticide is very common, and 
appears to be practised solely to get rid of the 
trouble of rearing children, and to enable the 
woman to follow her husband about in his wander- 
ings, which she frequently could not do if encum- 
bered with a child. The first three or four are often 
killed ; no distinction appears to be made in this 
case between male or female children. Half-castes 
appear to be always destroyed. 
The nomenclature of the natives is a subject of 
considerable difficulty, and is at present involved in 
much obscurity and uncertainty, so many different 
practices obtaining, and so many changes of name 
occurring to some individuals during the course of 
their life. In the Adelaide district, and among the 
tribes to the north, Mr. Moorhouse has found that 
numerical names are given to children wffien first 
born, in the order of birth, a variation in the termi- 
nation constituting the distinction of name for male 
or female, thus : — 
If male . 
The 1st child would be called Kertameru 
If female. 
Kertanya 
2nd 
>» 
Warritya 
Warriarto 
3rd 
5) 
Kudnutya 
Kudnarto 
4th 
J’ 
Monaitya 
Monarto 
5 th 
J> 
Milaitya 
Milarto 
6 th 
it 
Marrutya 
Marruarto 
7th 
a 
Wangutya 
Wangwarto 
8th 
>, 
Ngarlaitya 
Ngarlarto 
9th 
„ 
Pouarna 
These are given at birth ; but a short time after 
