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and scientifically described in 1999. The material includes two complete tarso-metatarsi, five vertebrae, one sacrum, one coracoid, two humeri, one ulna, three femora, ten pedal phalanxes and one fragment of the left mandibula.
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which was referred to as «Oiseau Bleu» in the same report. The Réunion swamphen was described as being as large as the
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