Item 01: 'Australian Aboriginal words and names collected by Robert Leycester Dawson', 17 September 1922 - Page 20

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                              17

To sleep                                             Nangry
Says - or to say or talk                        Piola
To Eat                                                Patter
The Sun                                             Uroka
Wood or a stick or club                       Waddy
Small reddish Kangaroo                      Walloby

                Tilba Tilba (South Coast) List-
                           - Animals -

Native dog                                     Mirriga
Kangaroo                                      Booroo
Paddimelon                                   Pataluma
Native bear                                    Cooraban
'Possum                                       Goon-era
Rat                                               Poocurla
Flying Fox                                    Thamoontha

                         - Birds -

Duck                                           Wombara
Pelican                                        Coorunkaba
Crane                                          Caaloo
Eagle Hawk               Moonyuga or Moonyunga
Crow                                           Waacura
Magpie                                        Coorumbugga
Plover                 Bingeringerin, or, Bindherinderin
White Cockatoo                           N'gawal
Black Cockatoo                           Wyelut
                                                             (over)

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