Hawkins’s Rail / Diaphorapteryx hawkinsi
WBN 
Hawkins's Rail
SCI Name:
Protonym: Nature 45 p.416
Taxonomy: Gruiformes / Rallidae / Diaphorapteryx
Taxonomy Code: hawrai1
Type Locality:
Author: Forbes
Publish Year: 1892
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
DIAPHORAPTERYX
‡ (Rallidae; † Hawkins's Rail D. hawkinsi) Gr. διαφορος diaphoros different < διαφορεω diaphoreō to disperse < διαφερω diapherō to carry across; genus Apteryx Shaw, 1813, kiwi; "Diaphorapteryx Forbes, 1892, Bull. Br. Ornith. Club 1: 21 — type (by monotypy) Aphanapteryx hawkinsi Forbes." (Checklist birds New Zealand, 3rd ed., 1990, p. 121). The large, flightless Hawkins's or Mehonui Rail of the Chatham Islands is known only from skeletons and subfossil remains, but may have survived into the early 1800s.
hawkinsi
● William Hawkins (fl. 1881) settler on Chatham Is., collector (‡Diaphorapteryx).
● Roland Walter Hawkins (1920-2001) Canadian ornithologist, taxidermist, aviculturalist (syn. Uropsila leucogastra australis).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
