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 78 Wodta, s.—Columba. The Bronze-winged pigeon. Most delicate eating. It abounds in summer, when the acacia seeds are ripe.

Wo-do, s.—Green-fleshed edible fungus; more juicy and tender, and less to be dreaded than our mushroom.

Woi-le?—(K.G.S.) A small species of kangaroo.

Woindja, v.—Corruption of Wanja, to leave; to quit; to desist.

Wolang, v.—To put on one's covering or clothes.

Wol-jarbăng—(Vasse.) A species of parrot.

Won-gin, a.—Living; also green, when applied to leaves or wood.

Wonnar, s.—A species of spear-wattle found in the hills.

Wonnang (Vasse.) To throw; to cast.

Woppăt—As Woppăt murrijo.

Wordan—(Vasse.) Supposed to signify north—probably the direction in which the rivers of a country flow.

Worri, s.—A species of snake not eaten by the natives.

Wot-yan, a.—On the other side; as Bilo wot-yan, on the other side of the river. Also remote; distant.

Woyn-bar (K.G.S. ) To cure by disenchantment.

Wu-lang-itch—(K.G.S.) To fasten.

Wulbugli, s.—Athenæ? The Barking Owl.

Wulgang, s.—A. grub found in the Xanthorea or Grass tree, distinguished from the Bardi by being much larger, and found only one or two in a tree, whereas the Bardi are found by hundreds.

Wulgar, s.—Guilt. Being implicated, from relationship or other causes, with persons who have committed murder, which renders a person Wulgargadăk, and liable to be killed in revenge. Those who are not in a state of Wulgar are said to be "Jidyt."

Wu-ling, ad.—Thus; in this manner.

Wul-lajerang—The Pleiades.

Wulwul, s.—Diomedea Chlororhynca. The Albatross.

Wambubin, a.—Strutting; being proud or vain.

Wunda, s.—A shield. The native shield is about two feet long, and very narrow, being barely sufficient to protect the hand when holding it. It is convex on the exterior face, and thinned off and rounded at each end, having a slit cut in the thickest part at the middle of the back, to serve as a handle. There are two sorts of wood, the Kumbuil, and the Kardil, of which they are made. The use of them is not at all common among the natives in the located parts of Western Australia, who bring them as great curiosities from the north to the settlers. They are sometimes ornamented with wavy lines or grooves, traced upon them with an opposum's tooth in the grain of the wood; the grooves being painted alternately red and white.

Wundab-buri, s.—The name given to an English boat, from its shape like a shield. The natives have no canoes, nor any mode of passing over water; but on the north-west coast, one man was seen by Captain King crossing an arm of the sea, on a piece of a mangrove-