Notes on Subfossil Anatidae from New Zealand, Including a New Species of Pink-Eared Duck Malacorhynchus

1 July 1977

journal article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Emu - Austral Ornithology

Vol. 77 (3) , 132-135
https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9770132

Abstract

OLSON, S. L. 1977. Notes on subfossil Anatidae from New Zealand, including a new species of pink-eared duck Malacorhynchus. Emu 77: 132–135. A new species of pink-eared duck, Malacorhynchus scarletti, is described from subfossil deposits at Pyramid Valley, South Island, NZ, and is characterized by larger size. Preliminary observations indicate that subfossil specimens of Biziura from New Zealand are larger and differ qualitatively from B. lobata; for the present, the name Biziura delautouri Forbes, 1892, ought to be retained for the New Zealand form. An erroneous record of Mergus australis is corrected.

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