Tahiti crake

The Tahiti crake (Zapornia nigra), also known as Miller's rail, is an extinct species of bird in the family Rallidae. It was endemic to Tahiti. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage.^[2] John Frederick Miller copied Forster's painting and published it with some changes in his work Icones animalium et plantarum in 1784. Miller coined the binomial name Rallus nigra.^[2][3] It probably went extinct in about 1800 from introduced predators.

Illustration by John Frederick Miller

Tahiti crake
Drawing by Georg Forster
Conservation status
Extinct  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Zapornia
Species:	†Z. nigra
Binomial name
†Zapornia nigra (J. F. Miller, 1784)
Synonyms
Rallus nigra Nesophylax niger Porzana nigra