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Glossary
| Bunnyyarl, flies. |
| Burreenjin, magpie, lark, or peewee. |
| Budtha, rosewood-tree, also girl's name. |
| Byamee, man's name, meaning "big man." |
| Comebee, bag made of kangaroo shins. |
| Comeboo, stone tomahawk. |
| Cookooburrah, laughing jackass. |
| Coorigil, name of place, meaning sign of bees. |
| Corrobboree, black fellows' dance. |
| Cunnembeillee, woman's name, meaning pig-weed root. |
| Curree guin guin, butcher-bird. |
| Daen, black fellows. |
| Dardurr, bark, humpy or shed. |
| Dayah minyah, carpet snake. |
| Dayoorl, large flat stone for grinding grass-seed upon. |
| Deegeenboyah, soldier-bird. |
| Deereeree, willy wagtail. |
| Dheal, the sacred tree of the Noongahburrahs, only used for putting on the graves of the dead. |
| Dinewan, emu. |
| Dingo, native dog. |
| Doonburr, a grass seed. |
| Doongara, lightning. |
| Dummerh, pigeons. |
| Dungle, water hole. |
| Dunnia, wattle. |
| Durrie, bread made from grass seed. |
| Eär moonän, long sharp teeth. |
| Euloo marah, large tree grubs. Edible. |
| Euloo wirree, rainbow. |
| Galah or Gilah, a French grey and rose-coloured cockatoo. |
| Gayandy, borah devil. |
| Gidgereegah, a species of small parrot. |
| Girrahween, place of flowers. |
| Gooeea, warriors. |
| Googarh, iguana. |
| Googoolguyyah, turn into trees. |
| Googoorewon, place of trees. |
| Goolahbah, grey-leaved box-tree. |
| Goolahgool, water-holding tree. |
| Goolahwilleel, top-knot pigeon. |
| Gooloo, magpie. |
| Goomade, red stump. |
| Goomai, water rat. |
| Goomblegubbon, bustard or plain turkey. |
| Goomillah, young girl's dress, consisting of waist strings made of opossum's sinews with strands of woven opossum's hair hanging about a foot square in front. |
| Goonur, kangaroo rat. |
| Goug gour gahgah, laughing jackass. Literal meaning, "Take a stick." |
