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Mundy visited Mauritius in 1638 and described the red rail as follows:
 
{{Quotation|A Mauritius henne, a Fowle as bigge as our English hennes, of a yellowish Wheaten Colour, of which we only got one. It hath a long, Crooked sharpe pointed bill. Feathered all over, butte on their wings they are soe Few and smalle that they cannot with them raise themselves From the ground. There is a pretty way of taking them with a red cap, but this of ours was taken with a stick. They bee very good Meat, and are also Cloven footed, soe that they can Neyther Fly nor Swymme.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Sclater | first1 = W. l.| title = The "Mauritius Hen" of Peter Mundy | doi = 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1915.tb08192.x | journal = Ibis | volume = 57 | issue = 2 | pages = 316–319 | year = 1915| url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/378278}}</ref>}}
 
Another English traveller, John Marshall, described the bird as follows in 1668: