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Description: The Rodrigues Rail or Leguat's Gelinote (Aphanapteryx leguati) is an extinct bird named after the learned traveller François Leguat, who came with a band of Huguenot religious refugees to Rodrigues in 1691 and stayed there for three years. One-Half Natural Size—from a description and a tracing.[1]
Title: Rodrigues Rail
Credit: Original publication: Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. By Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937). https://archive.org/stream/extinctbirdsatte00roth#page/n349/mode/2up
Author: Frederick William Frohawk (Life time: 16 July 1861 - 10 December 1946)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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