"Chargee Gnowee (Venus); sister of the Sun, and wife of Ginabong-bearp.
"Ginabong-bearp (Jupiter); Foot of Day, a chief of the Nurrumbung-uttias, and husband of Chargee Gnowee.
"Mityan (Moon); Native Cat (Dasyurus Geoffroyii) ; who fell in love with one of Unurgunite's wives, and while trying to induce her to run away with him, is discovered by Unurgunite, when a fight takes place; Mityan is beaten and runs away, and has been wandering ever since.
"Marpean-kurrk (Arcturus); mother of Djuit and Weet-kurrk. The discoverer of the bittur, and the instructor of the Aborigines where to find it. When it is coming into season with them, it is going out of season with her. The bittur is the pupa of the wood-ant, which is found in large communities, and of which the Aborigines are very fond. They subsist almost entirely upon it during part of the months of August and September. When she is in the north at evening, the bittur is coming into season; when she sets with the Sun, the bittur is gone, and {cotchi) summer begins.
"Djuit (Antares); son of Marpean-kurrk; the star on either side is his wife.
"Neilloan (Lyra); a Loan flying (Leipoa ocellata); the mother of Totyar-guil, and discoverer of the Loan eggs, which knowledge she imparted to the Aborigines. When the Loan eggs are coming into season on earth, they are going out of season with her. When she sets with the Sun, the Loan eggs are in season.
"Totyarguil (Aquila); the star on either side is his wife. He was the son of Neilloan, and was, while bathing, killed by a Bun-yip; his remains were afterwards rescued by his uncle (Collen-bitchick).
"Although the Bun-yip appears to be an imaginary creature, yet it is feared by every one, and is described as having a head and neck like an emu, and as inhabiting deep holes in rivers and lakes, where it kills persons who venture therein.
"Karick-karick (the two stars in the end of the tail of Scorpio); a male and female Falcon.
"Berm-berm-gl (two large stars in the fore-legs of Centaurus); two brothers, noted for their courage and destrnctiveness, who spear and kill Tchin-gal. The eastern stars of Crux are the points of the spears that have passed through him;—the one at the foot through his neck, and that in the arm through his back.
"Tchin-gal (the dark space between the fore-legs of Centaurus and Crux); Emu; who pursues Bunya until he takes refuge in a tree, and who is afterwards killed by Berm-berm-gl.
"Bunya (star in the head of Crux); Opossum; who is pursued by Tchin-gal, and who, in his fright, lays his spears at the foot of a tree, and runs up it for safety. For such cowardice he becomes an opossum.
"Tourt-chinboiong-gherra (Coma Berenices); a flock of small birds drinking rain-water, which has lodged in a fork of a tree.
