Island differentiation of New Zealand’s extinct mergansers (Anatidae: Mergini), with description of a new species from Chatham Island: correction and addition
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An ambiguous designation of the holotype of Chatham Island Merganser Mergus milleneri is corrected, and an overlooked discovery of a bone of this merganser associated with a Polynesian midden dating from the early 16th Century is appraised.
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