ds" and "shades" by Mr R.H. Mathews. Whether it is that
some observers have mistaken these for phratries or _vice versa_, it
seems that the names of the two classes of organisation are at present
inextricably intermingled, as the following table shows:

_Tribe_ _Phratry_ _Blood_ _Meaning_
Itchmundi[92] Kilpara-Muquara {Mukulo-Ngielpuru [+]Sluggish and
" {Muggula-Ngipuru[+] swift blood
Wiradjeri[93] Mukula-Budthurung
Wonghibon[94] Mukumura-Ngiel-
bumura
Wonghi- }[95]
bon and } Ngumbun- Gwaigullimba- [++]Swift and sluggish
Ngneumba} Ngurrawan Gwaimudhan[++] blood
Euahlayi[96] Gwaigullean- Light and dark
Gwaimudthen blooded
Murawari[97] Girrana-Merugulli Muggulu-BumbirraSec. Sec.Sluggish and
swift blood

FOOTNOTES:

[92] Howitt, p. 106 n.; Mathews in _J.R.S.N.S.W._ XXXIX, 118.

[93] _Id._ p. 107.

[94] _Id._ p. 108.

TABLE IV.

The areas covered by the different class and phratry names are not
co-extensive, that is to say a class is associated with more than one
phratry and _vice versa_. The Undekerebina[98] and Yelyuyendi[99] have
phratries (No. 29) which are usually associated with classes but in
their case none have been noted. On the other hand it is not uncommon to
find classes without the corresponding phratry names; this is the case
in the eight class area, among the tribes of N.S. Wales, S. Queensland,
etc.; but no special significance attaches to it unless we are certain
that it is not the negligence of the observer nor the disuse of the
names which has produced this state of things. On the other hand the
relation of phratry and class areas is of the highest importance, as is
shown in Chapter V. The following table shows the anomalies:

_Tribe_ _Phratry_ _Class_
Wiradjeri 21 I
Euahlayi 22 I
Ngeumba, Wonghi 23, or 24 I
Murawari 25 I
Kiabara, etc. 20 III
Dippil 26 III
Kuinmurbura, Kongulu 27 IV
Yuipera, Badieri, Yambeena, etc. 27 V
Kogai, Wakelbura, etc