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Hi all, I am testing an osteometric system for identifying bird bones on a historic assemblage in Australia. My reference measurement database is full of native birds as it was designed for prehistoric assemblages. So I have no chicken, domestic duck, turkey or goose measurements in it, and strangely enough can't really get a hold of material to fill in this gap. Does anyone have measurements of chooks and geese that they could give me? I'm using Von den Dreisch's (1976) measurement protocol (which is the same as Cohen & Serjeantson (1996) as far as I can gather), but could get something out of any greatest length, etc measurements. Mallard would be handy too, come to think of it as I have some feral Australian ones and Pacific Black Duck (which is almost conspecific, if such an 'almost' is possible), so it would be interesting to look at anyway. Many thanks in advance, Oliver Brown -- Oliver Brown PhD candidate Archaeology, A22, University of Sydney, 2006, NSW lab:(02) 9036 5127 / mob: 0427 279 675 / hm: 9665 2073 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.