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The species Chatham Islands Rail is extinct.

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Alternative name: Chatham Island Rail; Chatham Rail

Gallirallus modestus

[edit] Identification

Extinct. Last recorded around 1900.

38cm. Pale brown, paler throat, long decurved bill.

[edit] Distribution

Formerly Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

[edit] Taxonomy

Some authorities (BirdLife International, 2008) place this species in the monotypic genus Cabalus. However, Clements (2007), Howard & Moore (2003), and Sibley & Monroe (1996) all place it in Gallirallus, and the Opus follows this consensus.

[edit] Habitat

[edit] Behaviour

Flightless.

The diet included insects.

It nested in burrow.

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