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New Zealand musk duck
The New Zealand musk duck (''Biziura delautouri ''), also known as de Lautour’s duck, is an extinct stiff-tailed duck native to New Zealand. It is only known from prehistoric subfossil bones. Its closest relative was the living Australian musk duck ''Biziura lobata'', with which it has sometimes been combined.
==History==
The first discovery of the fossil remains of the duck, a single tarsometatarsus associated with large numbers of moa bones, was made at Enfield, near Oamaru on the South Island of New Zealand. It was first described, as ''Biziura delautouri'', in March 1892 by Dr Henry Forbes, the director of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch at the time, who named it after Dr H. de Lautour of Oamaru who helped acquire the specimen. Another paper by Forbes published in the ''Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute'' two months later used the spelling ''Biziura lautouri'';〔Forbes (May 1892).〕 however, the earlier name has priority.
Subsequently additional material was obtained from Marfells Beach, adjacent to Lake Grassmere at the north-eastern end of the South Island, and described in 1969 by Ron Scarlett, who considered the bird to be referable to ''B. lobata''.〔Scarlett (1969).〕 Later finds of musk duck fossils have been made at Lake Poukawa and Waikuku Beach on the North Island.〔Worthy (2002).〕
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