Tahiti crake explained

The Tahiti crake (Zapornia nigra), also known as Miller's rail, is an extinct species of bird in the family Rallidae.It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.^[1] John Frederick Miller copied Forster's painting and published it with some changes in his work Icones animalium et plantarum in 1784. Miller coined the binomial name Rallus nigra.^{[1] [2]} It probably went extinct in about 1800 from introduced predators.

Notes and References

1. Walters . Michael . 1988 . Probable validity of Rallus nigra Miller, an extinct species from Tahiti . Notornis . 35 . 4 . 265–269 .
2. Book: Miller, John Frederick . John Frederick Miller . 1777 . Icones animalium et plantarum. Various subjects of Natural History, wherein are delineated Birds, Animals and many curious Plants, &c. . 1 . la . London . Part 9, Plate 50. The work was published in 10 parts with 6 plates in each part. See: Sherborn . C.D. . Charles Davies Sherborn . Iredale . T. . Tom Iredale . 1921 . J. F. Miller's Icones . Ibis . 3 . 11th series . 302–309 . none.