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 8 Bibilyer, s.—A bustard; colonially, the wild turkey. A fine large bird, frequently weighing twelve to fifteen pounds, and extending full six feet from tip to tip of the wing. It is excellent for eating.

Bibi mul-ya, s.—Nipple of the breast.

Bibinak, s.—The white-throated creeper bird.

Bib-byl—A mother mourning for her child. See Medărăng.

Biddurong, s.—About two o'clock in the day.

Bidi, s.—A vein; the main path, or track, pursued by the natives in passing from one part of the country to the other, and which leads by the best watering places; also a sinew.

Bidi babba, a.—Weak; unwell; tired; from Bidi, a vein or sinew, and Babba, weak.

Bidi-dur-gul, s.—A straight line.

Bidi murdoin, a.—Strong; powerful; from Bidi, a vein, and Murdoin, strong.

Bidier, s.—A man of a certain importance or influence; from Bidi, a path: and meaning, therefore, a guide, director, or adviser; or from Bidi, a sinew, as being a strong man.

Bidil, s.—Charcoal.

Bidjak, a.—Stinking, offensive.

Bidjar, s.—Sleep. In summer they have merely a screen of bushes, to keep the wind from their back. In winter they build huts, with the door from the wind, and a small fire lighted before the door. See Mya.

Bidjar ngwundow, v.—To sleep; to go to sleep; to lie down to sleep.

Bidjigurdu, s.—An island. The natives have a tradition that Rottnest, Carnac, and Garden Island, once formed part of the mainland, and that the intervening ground was thickly covered with trees; which took fire in some unaccountable way, and burned with such intensity that the ground split asunder with a great noise, and the sea rushed in between, cutting off those islands from the mainland. This is a savage's description of an eruption of subterranean fire; and although there are not many indications of volcanic action in the neighbourhood, yet some recent observations of the officers of H. M. S. Beagle, during an examination of that part of the coast, and of the group of the Abrolhos Islands, would rather tend to confirm than to overthrow this opinion.

Bidjirungo, s.—A species of snake.

Bidjuba, s.—A snake of a white colour, with red bands.

Bigo, s.—Prepared resin of the grass-tree. See Tudteba.

Bigytch, s.—The forehead.

Bildjart, s.—Ptilotis. Yellow honey-sucker.

Bilga, s.—The ancle.

Bilgitti,a.—Unintelligible.

Billang, or Billangur (K. G. S.), verb.—Pres. part., Billangwin; past tense, Billangaga. To push; to roll.