SOURCES:
Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Argosy Weekly, January 7-February 11, 1939)
"John Carter and the Giant of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Amazing Stories, January 1940)

DESCRIPTION:  "We turned simultaneously to look back, and the sight that met our eyes was so astonishing that we could scarcely believe the evidence of our own senses. About twenty birds were winging toward us. That in itself was sufficiently astonishing, since they were easily identifiable as malagors, a species long presumed to be extinct; but to add to the incredibility of the sight that met our eyes, a warrior bestrode each of the giant birds." (Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: The Malagors are giant birds used as flying mounts that like all Barsoomian mounts they are controlled telepathically. Long thought extinct, the Hormads use them for mounts.

HISTORY: Buroughs added these flying creatures in The Synthetic Men of Mars, late in the series. They are little more than Martian pterodactyls.

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