Rails of the World: A Monograph of the Family Rallidae

abdomen Adult American Museum ashy Australia bill birds Black Crake blackish breast breeding British Museum British Orn brownish buff Chatham Island chestnut Clapper Rail color Coot Coturnicops coverts Cracraft Crake crown culmen darker DISTRIBUTION Downy young dusky edges eggs Eulabeornis feathers flanks flightless Fulica Gallinula genus grams grass gray greenish Guinea habitat head hind neck Holotype humerus iris Island KEY TO SUBSPECIES Laterallus legs and feet Little Crake Males and females mandible marshes MEASUREMENTS Milne-Edwards Moorhen Museum of Natural Natural History nest olive olive-brown Olson pale paler PLATE plumage Porphyrio Porzana Proc Purple Swamphen Rail Rallus Rallidae Rallina Rallus longirostris Rallus pectoralis Rallus philippensis reddish brown rufous rump sides of neck South South Island Species of Rails specimens spots STATUS SUBSPECIFIC CHARACTERS Syntype Systema Naturae tail tarsometatarsus tarsus throat tibiotarsus underparts upper tail-coverts upperparts Water Rail wing wing-coverts Wood Rail Zealand Zool