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32 Queensland to the other animals tabu'd vary with each particular locality ie. there is no constancy between the alleged 'totem' and the division. Some typical examples taken at random throughout the country are the following:- Kupuru Wungko Kurkilla Bari-bari Eastern Coast - line Pr. Charlotte Bay (1) Koko-olkulo various species carpet-snake goose bird like blacks of poison snakes bird like the plover an owl morpork (2) Koko-warra red Kangaroo (same goose same blacks dingo prohibitions blackduck proh- giant lily as Kurkilla) alligator ibitions brown snake cockatoo as owl blue lily Kupuru Bowen Emu brown-snake 'rainbow' sp.of (Yuro) blacks eel carpet-snake opossum honey turtle ground bandicoot iguana eagle- frilled hawk lizard stingaree porcupine Acron country to lower Gulf and Western districts Etheridge River Red Kangaroo Rock wallaby Emu Rock & [??] blacks alligator opossum bony kangaroo bream black garfish bream Upper Flinders carpet-snake eagle-hawk black River (Wunamurra) emu black & duck brown turkey snakes Lower Gulf of Carpentaria & Western districts Kundarra poison snakes two unidentified water- tiger- Between owl species of snake snake Stanton & bird carpet- brown- Nassau? Rs snake snake Cloncurry iguana porcupine water- carpet- [Mait]akudi whistler emu snake snake duck kangaroo corella dingo carpet- eagle-hawk snake black duck turkey Leichhard- emu emu pelican whistler Selwyn carpet- mountain whistler wood- Ranges snake kangaroo duck duck (Kalkadoon) brown- wallaby black- native snake honey duck [????] mountain porcupine turkey rat snake opossum plain- bandicoot porcupine carpet- kangaroo plain wallaby snake fish: kangaroo rat brown- various sp carpet opossum snake snake mountain mountain kangaroo snake fish: various sp. Boulia iguana scrub turkey Kangaroo Emu District whistler eagle-hawk carpet snake Yellow (Pitta Pitta) duck bandicoot teal snake black duck brown-snake brown galah blue-yellow black dingo headed parrot crane white duck white - sp. of yellow dingo bellied duck hawk small yellow various sp. sp. of fish of diver bird Trumpeter fish black bream
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