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NGARIGO TRIBE—continued Classes. Totems.

Bra-ar-gar a small hawk Tchuteba rabbit-rat Baua flying-squirrel next in size to bulemba ⁠ Yukembruk Crow Burru Kangaroo Berribong emu Budalak lace-lizard Kuriur native companion Kauar spiny ant-eater Ulunbau sleeping lizard

To the north of the Ngarigo were the Wolgal, who extended over the great alpine ranges in which the Murray and the Murrumbidgee rise. This tribe like that at Omeo had in 1870 become almost extinct, there being only a few individuals left, one of whom had been the bard or singer of his people and had, when I knew him, attached himself to the Ngarigo. The Wolgal class system is as follows:^[1]

WOLGAL TRIBE Classes. Totems. Banda kangaroo Nuron emu Ebai hawk ⁠ Malian Eagle-hawk Mari dingo Wutherin flying-squirrel Bellit-bellit lyre-bird Natjanajan bat   Megindang wombat Maralang brown snake ⁠ Umbe Crow Biringal a star (? Venus) Maniyuk bandicoot Wandeli spiney ant-eater Tchuteba rabbit-rat

I have said in the last chapter that the Biduelli, a small tribe which lived in the dense forest country between the coast range, the Lower Snowy River and the sea,

1. Rev. J. Bulmer, verified by me.