Additional Specimens of Two Rare Rails and Comments on the GenusTricholimnasof New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island
- 31 July 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Emu - Austral Ornithology
- Vol. 82 (3) , 131-136
- https://doi.org/10.1071/mu9820131
Abstract
FULLAGAR, P.J., H.J. de S. DISNEY and R de NAUROIS 1982 Additional specimens of two race rails and comments on the genus Tricholimnas of New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. Emu 82: 131–136. Four skins of Nesoclopeus poeciloptera (Hartlaub) from Fiji and two previously unknown skins of Tricholimnas lafresnayanus (Verreaux & de Murs) from New Caledonia held in collections in Sydney, Australia, are listed. We have examined a total of twelve T. lafresnayanus in world museums. Two others have been traced and a third possibly exists. Two more have been destroyed. Measurements from this rail and its plumage are compared with those from the Woodhen T. sylvestris (Sclater) of Lord Howe Island and their similarities emphasized.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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