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New Extinct Rail

Nature volume 45, page 416 (1892)Cite this article

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I HAVE just obtained from the Chatham Islands a nearly perfect sub-fossil skull of an extinct Ocydromine rail, closely resembling the Mauritian Aphanapteryx, five and quarter inches long, beak arched, slender, very pointed, for which I propose the specific name Hawkinsi.

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    HENRY O. FORBES

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FORBES, H. New Extinct Rail. Nature 45, 416 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045416d0

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