Red-legged Crakes and Allies
Rallina
Rallina is a genus of bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It contains four species found in forest and marshland in Asia and Australasia. They are 18–34 cm long and mainly chestnut or brown, often with black and white markings. They are four species that are now placed in the genus Rallicula that were previously included in the genus Rallina. In fact, some taxonomic authorities continue to place them there. A fifth species, the Great Nicobar crake...
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Red-legged Crake
speciesRallina fasciata
Slaty-legged Crake
speciesRallina eurizonoides
Red-necked Crake
speciesRallina tricolor
Andaman Crake
speciesRallina canningi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.89
Books on Marine Fishes
Guillaume Rondelet · 1554 · p.666
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.601
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.45
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 264.