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Pillingchuni. Meaning unknown. Pilling or billing is the
common bat. Pillin is a species of parrot. Curiously,
pillin-dhu-ni would mean, in the Kebi language "Parrots on
a tree", dhu meaning tree. It, however, doe snot apply in this
case as the local name for tree is "tolle".

I thank you for your informaiton re. D'Aguilar. I have
been asked about this name many times without being able
to give any information.

Could you give me ay information regarding tthe meaning
of "Cainbible". I have asked an abo who is well acquainted
with the scrub of that name in the National Park area, but he
could not tell me. Perhaps it is a corruption of some abo.
word, but, pronounced as above spelled, it does not ring true
to me as an abo. expression.

Re. the place name Wooloongabba on which you asked infor-
mation a little while back. I may mention that on looking over
some of my memoranda, I found that the Brisbane natives' name
for the whiptailed wallaby is "wolldn". The habitat of the
whiptail is ridgy forest county with which the country about
South Brisbane would, in early days, coincide. I have, there-
fore, little doubt that Wooloongabba should be Wollan-ku-ba
meaning "place of whip-tailed wallabies". from wollan, whip
tailed wallaby, and kuba, belonging to,