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Snipe-rail
The snipe-rail (''Capellirallus karamu'') is an extinct flightless rail endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. The species' name is derived from the Karamu Cave〔Ripley, S. D. (1977): Rails of the World - A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. Boston. ISBN 0-87474-804-6〕 from Hamilton〔 where the holotype was discovered in 1954.〔
==Description==
The snipe-rail was a relatively small rail 〔Tennyson, A. & Martinson, P. (2006): Extinct Birds of New Zealand; Te Papa Press, Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8〕 which had a bill of about 7 cm, very long in proportion to its body size.〔 Its weight was about 240 g.〔 The type material consists of an incomplete skeleton, including vertebrae, a pelvis, and a hind limb.〔 Since the discovery of these remains, many complete skeletons〔 consisting of hundreds of bones〔 have been unearthed on different sites in the North Island.〔 The snipe-rail has a specific position among New Zealand rail species.〔 Its evolutionary relationships to other rail species are unclear 〔 but the structure of its bones suggests that it might have been a relative of the likewise extinct Chatham rail.〔〔 Relative to its body size, the snipe-rail had the smallest wings of all known rail species.〔〔 It also had a disproportionally large tarsometatarsus.〔
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