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Tahiti rail
The Tahiti rail (''Gallirallus pacificus'') or Tahitian red-billed rail is a poorly known extinct species of rail. ==Taxonomy== It once occurred on Tahiti, where, apparently on the second voyage of James Cook in 1773, one was acquired and described by Johann Reinhold Forster as well as painted by his son Georg. What became of Forster's specimen is not known. This flightless species was probably derived from the ubiquitous buff-banded rail stock. The Tahitian name was transcribed as ''ebōnā'' or ''ōmnā'' (see also below).〔Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1879): (of ''Gallirallus pacificus'' ). ''In: Systema Naturae (13th edition)'' 1, part 2: 717.〕 Due to a major taxonomic mix-up, the name ''Rallus ecaudatus'' was commonly used in the mid-late 20th century to refer to this bird. This is, however, in error, as that taxon is an extant subspecies of the buff-banded rail, today known as ''Gallirallus philippensis ecaudatus''. Also, at least once, the Tahitian bird has been referred to by the scientific name of the Samoan wood rail, ''Gallinula pacifica'', in a major scientific work.
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