The slaty-breasted rail (''Lewinia striata'') is a

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species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

native to the

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and

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. Breeding has been recorded in July near Dehradun in the foothills of the Indian

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. Despite traditionally being considered part of ''

Gallirallus ''Gallirallus'' is a genus of rails that live in the Australasian-Pacific region. The genus is characterised by an ability to colonise relatively small and isolated islands and thereafter to evolve flightless forms, many of which became extinct ...

,'' recent genetic studies have consistently placed it in the genus ''

Lewinia ''Lewinia'' is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae. The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail ''Lewinia pectoralis'' as the type species. The genus name is from a synonym of the type specie ...

'', which is now formally recognised by the IUCN and IOC.

Gallery

File:Slaty-breasted rail.jpg, Slaty-breasted rail at Chilika Lake,

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File:Hypotoenidia obscurioria - Hypotoenidia striatus.jpg, Illustration of slaty-breasted rails by Edward Neale c. 1890 File:Slaty-breasted Rail Gallirallus striatus East Kolkata Wetland West Bengal India 24.01.2013.jpg, Slaty-breasted rail in

East Kolkata Wetlands The East Calcutta Wetlands, (22 0 27’ N 88 0 27’ E), are a complex of natural and human-made wetlands lying east of the city of Calcutta (Kolkata), of West Bengal in India. The wetlands cover 125 square kilometres and include salt marsh ...

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File:Slaty breasted rail E.jpg, Slaty-breasted rail in the wetlands of Vasai, Maharashtra, India

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