Water rail, Rallus aquaticus. Aschhunlin, Wasserralle, Gallina cinerea. De Avibus, species duae Gallinarum aquaticarum de novo adiecta. 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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