Miller Moorhen

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Miller Moorhen
Drawing by Georg Forster, 1773

Drawing by Georg Forster, 1773

Systematics
Class : Birds (aves)
Order : Crane birds (Gruiformes)
Family : Rallen (Rallidae)
Genre : Moorhens ( Porzana )
Type : Miller Moorhen
Scientific name
Porzana nigra
( JFMiller , 1784)

The Miller-Moorhuhn ( Porzana nigra ) is an extinct species of railing from the genus of the moorhens .

It is only known through two drawings from the 18th century. The first drawing was made by Georg Forster in 1773 and is entitled "Rallus minutus, Màho, Taheitee". In 1784 John Frederick Miller made a copy of Forster's drawing and published it with some changes and comments in his work Cimelia Physica . Johann Reinhold Forster indicated Tahiti as the distribution area. John Latham named Tanna as a distribution area of ​​a subspecies. While Averil Margaret Lysaght (1956) and Murray D. Bruce et al. (1983) considered Porzana nigra identical to Porzana tabuensis , Storrs Lovejoy Olson and David William Steadman believe that the Miller moorhen was a flightless, endemic species of Tahiti. This assessment is supported by subfossil bone finds of an endemic marsh grouse species ( Porzana rua ) from Mangaia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael P. Walters: 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. PDF, 3.7MB
  2. ^ Johann Reinhold Forster. 1844. ( Martin Hinrich Lichtenstein , ed.) Descriptiones animalium . xiii, 425 S. Officina Academica, Berolini.
  3. ↑ John Latham. 1785. A General Synopsis of Birds. Volume 3. Part 1. iii, 328 S. Leigh & Sotheby, London.
  4. ^ Averil Margaret Lysaght: A note on the Polynesian black or sooty rail Porzana nigra (Miller) 1784 . 1956 Bulletin of the British Ornithological Club Vol. 76 (6): pp. 97-98.
  5. ^ Murray D. Bruce, David Thomas Holyoak, and Jean-Claude Thibault. 1983. Rallus tabuensis Gmelin, 1789 (Aves): Proposed conservation under the plenary powers by the suppression of Rallus nigra (sic) Miller, 1784. ZN (S.) 2276. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature Vol. 40 (4): S. . 249-251. On-line
  6. ↑ SL Olson; DW Steadman: Comments on the proposed suppression of Rallus nigra Miller, 1784 and Columba R. Forsteri Wagler, 1829 (Aves) In: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Vol. 44, No. 2, 1987: pp. 126-128 online

literature

  • Averil Margaret Lysaght (1959): Some Eighteenth Century Bird Paintings in the Library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) In: Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series Vol. 1. pp. 302-303. On-line
  • David William Steadman: Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands In: Pacific Science (1986), Vol. 40, Nos. 1-4: pp. 1-17. On-line
  • Michael P. Walters: On the proposed suppression of Rallus nigra Miller, 1784 (Aves) . In: The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. Volume 46, 1989. pp. 50-51 online
  • C. Davies Sherborn & Tom Iredale: JF Miller's Icones In: The Ibis. Volume 3. Series 11. pp. 307-308 online

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