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LANGUAGE.
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English Name.

Aboriginal Name.

Small bird with patch
of red over tail
Bribatith.
Small bird like tomtit Ya rang.
Geese Nath.
Snipe Klik .
Spoon-bill duck Wyung.
Darter or serpent-bird Tharwan.
Mountain duck Kara-gnark.
Sand-piper Kewet-kewet.
White hawk Boon boong.
Small grey hawk Troon wagga.
Grey plover Bungil bowrndang.
Quail Ooro bi gnanang.
Penguin Tarlo birndang.
Water-hen Neerloong.

Insects, &c.

English Name.

Aboriginal Name.

Spider Mermandho.
Tarantula Waanduna kani.
Mason fly Kookoonda miowera.
March fly Narrawort.
Mosquito Newan.
Cricket Ta jerrat.
Small moth Tarlo käng käng.
Frog Tatelah.
Bull-frog Blook.
Sting-ray Bäälangoork.
Bulldog ant Dibban.
Large-headed ant Purk gatti.
Small black ant Wooyoot.
Louse Nin.
Grass tick Dango.
Grasshopper, locust Bapakan.
Grub Krang.
Large moth Bä bukan.
Butterfly Ngarewert.
Black beetle Ngoorin.
Fly Naroon.
Bee Kaangal.
Mantis Bungil towera.
Centipede Ngow-ook thuringa.
Scorpion Koongun.
Earwig Ngara-ngara.

Trees, &c.

English Name.

Aboriginal Name.

Ironbark Baroin.
Box-tree Tä-kan.
White-gum Balook.
Mahogany of Snowy River Pinnak.
Wattle Mart.
Lightwood Yowan.
She-oak Bärn.
Cherry-tree Ballat.
Stringybark Yangoora.
Mountain ash Yowat.
Red-gum Yooro.
Tea-tree Birt.
Tea scrub or hummocks Nowart.
Currant-tree Lirra.
Pittosporum undulatum Bärt-bärt.
Honeysuckle Bown.
Kangaroo apple Koonyang.
Musk-tree Barri mebbook.
Fern-tree Kärak.
Fern, light-green one Geewan.
Nettle Mäbun.
Sow-thistle Thalak.
Common grass Ban.
Grass-tree Tarndang.
Cabbage-tree Thapalla.
Reed Kowat.
Cutting grass, used for making baskets Krowan.
Rush grown on swamps, with broad flat leaf Toorook.
Round rush Booroot.
White-currant shrub Karrowert.
Raspberry Yallaban.
Tall fern-tree Kakawert.
Short fern-tree Dagal.

LANGUAGE OF THE NATIVES OF THE PINE PLAIN TRIBE, NORTH WIMMERA, AND GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD IN THE WESTERN DISTRICT, THE LODDON, AND SWAN HILL.

(Carefully collected from some very intelligent blacks from that tribe living at Lake Wellington Mission Station in Gippsland.)

(By the Rev. F. A. Haqenauer, of Lake Wellington, Gippsland.)

English.

Native.

I am going to strike Daak ginyan.
To strike going am I.
I am going to find a nest Yaak ginyan laangy-banyee.
To find going am I (a) nest (of a) bird.
I am going to lie down Goomin ginyan.
To lie down going am I.