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Common terms and phrasesabdomen Adult American Museum ashy bill birds Black Crake blackish breast breeding British Museum British Orn Brodkorb brownish buff Bull Chatham Island chestnut Clapper Rail color Coot Coturnicops coverts Cracraft Crake crown culmen darker DISTRIBUTION Downy young dusky edges eggs Eulabeornis extinct feathers flanks flightless Fulica Gallinula genus grams grass gray grayish 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 reddish brown remiges rufous rump sides of neck slaty South South Island Species of Rails specimens spots STATUS SUBSPECIFIC CHARACTERS Syntype Systema Naturae tail tarsometatarsus tarsus throat tibiotarsus tinged underparts upper tail-coverts upperparts Water Rail wing wing-coverts Zealand Zool References to this bookFrom other books
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