Tahiti Crake

The Miller 's Crake ( Porzana nigra) is an extinct Rallenart from the kind of moorhens.

It has been known only by two drawings from the 18th century. The first drawing is by Georg Forster from 1773 and is entitled " Rallus minutus, Maho, Taheitee ". 1784 John Frederick Miller made ​​a copy of Forster's drawings and published them with some changes and comments in his work Cimelia Physica. Johann Reinhold Forster was Tahiti as a distribution area. John Latham called Tanna as the range of a subspecies. During Averil Margaret Lysaght (1956) and Bruce D. Murray et al. Have considered (1983 ) Porzana nigra as identical with Porzana tabuensis, Storrs Lovejoy Olson and David William Steadman are of the view that the Miller 's Crake was a flightless, endemic species of Tahiti. This assessment is supported by subfossil bone finds an endemic species Crake ( Porzana rua ) of Mangaia.