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Dubbo
Dubbo Oct 1st 1899 19
Native names of clans, meanings or reasons why blacks gave such names to several localities
| Birrabunga | So called because being frequented by white crested birds (unknown) |
| Bunglegumbie | The noise produced by a womerah, blacks weapon, being thrown in air (a plain of Dubbo) |
| Belarbigal | A spot on a plain where a species of oak grows |
| Bundemar | A Nullah Nullah (blacks weapon of attack) |
| Barrabadeen | A Water hole (a place near Dubbo) |
| Buckumbugir | A Ghost |
| Burrawang | Anything fast (mostly applied to animals) |
| Bidthera (now [?]) | Meaning cannot be got here |
| Cowel | A swamp or hollow in ground |
| Cumbagalumba | Top of head, name given by blacks to a sweet mana found on gum leaves a place near Dubbo now called Combugal Cumbong |
| Dubbo | A band worn around the forehead by blacks. An ornament. |
| Dundullamil | Hail storm |
| Durybong | Grey from age |
| Ellugerah | White Quartz |
| Eulomoga | ? finger nails |
| Gralunga | A sandy spot |
| Gumiari[?] | An Animals Paunch |
| Girlamboua[?] | Stoney place |
| Lubrigan | Rainbow |
| Myall Plains | Boree (a kind of tree) |
| Terranumgamine | Broken thigh |
| Timbrebongie | Broken Knee |
| Minoro[?] | White flower |
| Murrumbidgerie | Meaning not ascertained |
| Whylandra | A heap of stones |
| Warren | Strong, substantial |
| Wallinbillen | Stoney |
| -Bone | Any names ending with bone almost invariably means the name of some locality such as Quambone, Galargambone, Girlambone Batterbone and so on. |
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