New evidence on the life and death of Hawkins' Rail Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi : Moriori accounts recorded by Sigvard Dannefaerd and Alexander Shand | Notornis and Birds New Zealand

Notornis

Tennyson, AJD¹  Cooper, JH¹ 

关键词: behaviour;    Dannefaerd;    Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi;    extinction;    Hawkins’    Moriori;    rail;    Shand;   

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学科分类：动物科学

来源: Ornithological Society of New Zealand Inc.

【 摘 要 】

A previously unknown Moriori-based account of the extinct Hawkins’ rail (Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi) from the Chatham Islands is presented and discussed. The account, recorded by Sigvard Jacob Dannefaerd in a letter to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild in 1895, includes details of the species’ appearance, behaviour and Moriori hunting methods. A second, similar description of a previously unidentified Chatham Islands bird is also linked to Hawkins’ rail. The clarity of the accounts suggests a considerably later extinction date for the species than previously supposed.

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