Miller's Rail

Miller's Rail
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Porzana
Species:	P. nigra
Binomial name
Porzana nigra J. F. Miller, 1784
Synonyms
Rallus nigra

The Miller's Rail (Porzana nigra) was a species of bird in the Rallidae family. It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.^[1] John Frederick Miller copied Forsters painting and published it with some changes and remarks in his work Cimelia Physica in 1784.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{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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