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Inaccessible Island Rail Atlantisia rogersi

10,000 Birds

Henry Rogers left his own written description of the rail that bears his name: the most interesting bird of all is the island c**k, of which I was fortunate in procuring the first specimen known to science, and which we are going to send to South Kensington and the Cape. Immature is overall brownish in colour with dark eye.

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