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English: The Rodrigues Rail or Leguat's Gelinote (Aphanapteryx leguati) is an extinct bird named after the learned traveller François Leguat, who came with a band of Huguenot religious refugees to Rodrigues in 1691 and stayed there for three years.
Français : Aussi appelé gélinotte de Leguat, le râle de Rodrigues (Aphanapteryx leguati) est une espèce d'oiseau gruiforme de la famille des rallidés autrefois endémique de l'île Rodrigues et aujourd'hui disparu.
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Source Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. By Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937). (https://archive.org/details/extinctbirdsatte00roth)
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Frederick William Frohawk  (1861–1946)  wikidata:Q485761 s:en:Author:Frederick William Frohawk
 
Frederick William Frohawk
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Fredrick William Frohawk; F. W. Frohawk; Frederik William Frohawk; Frohawk
Description British zoologist
English: zoological artist and lepidopterist
Français : illustrateur et entomologiste britannique
Date of birth/death 16 July 1861 Edit this at Wikidata 10 December 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death East Dereham Headley
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