Unknown species of water hen. Called the small water hen, Gallinula minor, grinetta gallinule, etc. De Avibus, de Tertio genere, quod Deffyt nominator vulgo, a nobis Poliopus. 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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