Miller's Rail
Encyclopedia
The Miller's Rail was a species of bird
in the Rallidae
family.
It was endemic to Tahiti
. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage. John Frederick Miller
copied Forsters painting and published it with some changes and remarks in his work Cimelia Physica in 1784.
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
in the Rallidae
Rallidae
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small to medium-sized birds. The family exhibits considerable diversity and the family also includes the crakes, coots, and gallinules...
family.
It was endemic to Tahiti
Tahiti
Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...
. It was discovered and painted by Georg Forster during the second Cook voyage. John Frederick Miller
John Frederick Miller
John Frederick Miller was an English illustrator, mainly of botanical subjects.Miller was the son of the artist Johann Sebastian Müller . Miller, along with his brother James, produced paintings from the sketches made by Sydney Parkinson on James Cook's first voyage...
copied Forsters painting and published it with some changes and remarks in his work Cimelia Physica in 1784.