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RELATIONSHIPS AND TOTEMS
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Gooboothoo doves
Goolayyalilee pelican
Oonaywah black diver
Gunundar while diver
Birriebungar small diver
Mounin mosquito
Mouninguggahgui mosquito bird
Bullah Bullah butterflies
Tucki a kind of bream
Beewerh bony bream
Gulbarlee shingleback lizard
Budtha rosewood
Goodoogah yalli
Wayarah wild grapes
Garwah rivers
Gooroongoodilbaydilbay     south wind.

It is said a Maira will never be drowned, for the rivers are a sub-totem of theirs; but I notice they nevertheless learn to swim.

Yubbah, carpet snake, as a kin has almost disappeared, only a few members remaining to claim

Mungahran hawk.

Burrahwahn, a big sandhill rat, now extinct here, claims—

Mien dingo
Dalleerin a lizard
Gaengaen wild lime
Willerhderh, or Douran Douran  north wind
Bralgah native companion.

Buckandee, native cat kin, claim—

Buggila leopard wood
Bean myall
Bunbundoolooey     a little brown bird
Dunnee Bunbun a very large green parrot
Dooroongul hairy caterpillar.

Amongst other totems were once the Bralgah, Native Companion, and Dibbee, a sort of sandpiper, but their kins are quite extinct as far as our blacks are concerned; the birds themselves are still plentiful. The Bralgah birds