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Post by another specialist on Sept 4, 2008 8:17:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2013 14:45:14 GMT
There never was an endemic form of rail on Lisianski, during 'excavations' only a single rail bone was found, undistinguishable from those of the Laysan Rail, of which a small population was released on the island of Lisianski.
If there once was a distinct population of rails, of course many more bones would have been found, and these would of course have differed in some aspects from those of other rail species.
source:
Storrs L. Olson; A. C. Ziegler: Remains of land birds from Lisianski Island, with observations on the terrestrial avifauna of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 49: 111-125. 1995
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