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dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T09:19:27Z-
dc.date.available2019-01-08T09:19:27Z-
dc.date.issued1988-
dc.identifier.citationMarjorie Northcote, E. (1988). The Dwarf Maltese swan. Il-Merill, 25, 1-4.en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/38052-
dc.description.abstractBate (1916) gave the name Cygnus equitum to fossil bones she considered to be those of a dwarf extinct swan. Lambrecht (1933) and Howard (1964) agreed with Bate. However, the eminent authority Brodkorb (1964) named these bones Anser equitum, considering them to belong to a large extinct goose. Bate (1916) briefly described the holotype (a carpometacarpus) and paratypes Ca proximal humerus and a coracoid) that came from deposits at Ghar Dalam, Malta. This type-series (Specimens 20 and 21) is in the National Museum of Natural History, Malta (NMM). Casts of the bones (Specimens A1613, A1614, and A1615), labelled Anser eguitum, are in the British Museum (Natural History) (BMNH). Among other anseriform bones from those museums and the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge ( UMZC) I found further equitum fossils (chiefly also of fore-limbs) from elsewhere in Malta. It is now possible to ascertain the genus and affinities of the bird and suggest its size, form and habit, particularly with respect to Bate's claim that equitum was flightless.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherMalta Ornithological Societyen_GB
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_GB
dc.subjectBirds -- Malta -- Historyen_GB
dc.subjectExtinct birds -- Maltaen_GB
dc.subjectBirds, Fossil -- Maltaen_GB
dc.subjectSwans -- Maltaen_GB
dc.subjectAnatidaeen_GB
dc.subjectAnseriformesen_GB
dc.titleThe Dwarf Maltese swanen_GB
dc.typearticleen_GB
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dc.description.reviewedN/Aen_GB
dc.publication.titleIl-Merillen_GB
dc.contributor.creatorMarjorie Northcote, E.-
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