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Tahiti crake

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Tahiti crake
Drawing by Georg Forster
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Gruiformes
Family:
Rallidae
Genus:
Porzana
Species:
P. nigra
Binomial name
Porzana nigra
Synonyms

Rallus nigra

The Tahiti crake (Porzana nigra), also known as Miller's rail, was a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.[2] John Frederick Miller copied Forsters painting and published it with some changes and remarks in his work Cimelia Physica in 1784.[2]

Illustration by John Frederick Miller

References

  1. ^ Template:IUCN
  2. ^ a b Walters, M: Probable validity of Rallus nigra Miller, an extinct species from Tahiti. In: Notornis. Journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand. Volume 35 Part 4 December 1988.


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