Yindjibarndi (Jindjiparndi)

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The Pudpud is the pheasant coucal, Centropus phasianinus.

The sea rose and went inland as far as Wirmad (Chiratta Station, about 30 mi. inland). The Pudpud said, "Why should he go into a land with the smell of spinifex? Downdown, downdown, downdown!" The sea turned back at his words. Sand and shells were left by the sea at that time.

C. G. von Brandenstein, Narratives from the North-West of Western Australia in the Ngarluma and Jindjiparndi Languages, vol. 2, Australian Aboriginal Studies No. 35 (Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1970), text #45, 211-212.