Hawaiian rail and Tahiti rail, illustration. 1. The Tahiti rail, Tahitian red-billed rail, or Pacific red-billed rail (Hypotaenidia pacifica). 2. The Hawaiian rail (Zapornia sandwichensis, here as Pennula sandwichensis), Hawaiian spotted rail, or Hawaiian crake, an extinct species of diminutive rail that lived on Big Island of Hawaii. 3. The Hawaiian rail (here as Pennula millsi). From '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 Baron, Lionel Walter Rothschild, published in 1907.