Species of water rail, Rallus aquaticus. De Avibus, species gallinae aquaticae, Steingallila, Steingaellila, aschhunlin. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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