Rallina poecilopterus = Hypotaenidia poeciloptera (bar-winged rail)

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Subject:	Rallina poecilopterus = Hypotaenidia poeciloptera (bar-winged rail)
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Rallina poecilopterus = Hypotaenidia poeciloptera (bar-winged rail)

Bar-winged Rail (Nesoclopeus poecilopterus)
Date 1867
Source http://www.extinct.minks-lang.de/a.englisch/arten.n/nesoclopeus.poecilopterus1.html
Author depictions from 'Beitrag zur Fauna Centralpolynesiens. Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa- und Tonga-Inseln; von O. Finsch und G. Hartlaub. Mit 14 nach der Natur lithographirten und colorirten Kupfertafeln. Halle, H. W. Schmidt, 1867.'
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nesoclopeus.poecilopterus.ofgh.jpg

The bar-winged rail (Hypotaenidia poeciloptera) is an extinct species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was endemic to Fiji and was last collected ca 1890 in Viti Levu. The last unconfirmed sighting of this bird was in 1973.

Order: Gruiformes
Family: Rallidae
Genus: Hypotaenidia
Species: Hypotaenidia poeciloptera (Hartlaub, 1866)
Synonyms
- Hypotaenidia poeciloptera
- Gallirallus poecilopterus

Extinct birds
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