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Romantic Aboriginal Legend

The "eternal triangle" becomes a four-sided figure in Australian abori- <*> ginal legend, for it is the two wives of Waijungari who seize his brother by

night: and the guilty three, triien dis covered by the husband, find a con venient means of escape by climbing up the shaft of a spear which stuck in the sky. The two women became stars: and Waijungari. transformed into the planet Mars, still sits in the heavens and fishes for men with a fishing spear. The eeveral tribal ver sions of the story are told by Mr. N. B. Tindale in Vol V.. No. 3. of "Records of the South Australian Museum." lust issued from the Hassell Press. The writer of the article shorre how local topographical detail is woven into the native legends, and incidentally stresses the urgency of the task of gathering information concerning the aborigines of the southern part of this State, point-in? out that there are now fewer ihan 30 full-blooded aborigines living in the xhole area east and south of Port Augusta. In'-the same is^ue Mr. Tindale contributes a Re vision of the Australian Ghost Moths, and Mr. K. Womersley discusses the occurrence of Aearina of the family Teneriffiidac. The Vivjparidae family of Australian freshwater molluscs, re cent and fossil, is dealt with in a paper hy Mr. B. C. Cotton, the Museum Conchologist. Mr. Gilbert Whitley, of the Australian Museum. Sydney, has a naper on Sshes of Princess Charlotte Bsv. North Oueensiand. which were collected by Messrs. Tindale end H. M. Hale. Mr. Hsle describes the egg case of a cat shark taken in St. Vincent's Culf: Mr. Cotton and Miss N. H. Woods describe the recent and fossil Turrilella shells of Southern Aus tralia. An article on the fossil Chitons from Europe at the South Australian Museum by Messrs. E. Ashby and Cot ton: and an obituary and bibliography of the late Dr. A. M. Moraan is in cluded in the magazine. The articles are ?veil illustrated, the l"lne dra-arings of fish by Mr. G. P. Whitley beinsr especially fine delineations.

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