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  1. Any bird of the family Rallidae, including
  2. corncrakes, coots, moorhens, and gallinules.
  3. Many oceanic islands have their own species
  4. of rail, often flightless, such as the Guam
  5. rail and Auckland Island rail. Several of
  6. these species have declined sharply, usually
  7. because of introduced predators such as rats
  8. and cats.
  9.