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The South Island takah? (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family. It is often known by the abbreviated name takah?, which it shares with the recently extinct North Island takah?. The two takah? species are also known as notornis