| Cocos buff-banded rail | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Gallirallus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | G. p. andrewsi
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| Trinomial name | |
| Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi (Mathews, 1911)
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The Cocos buff-banded rail, Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi, is an endangered subspecies of the buff-banded rail endemic to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian Offshore Territory in the central-eastern Indian Ocean.[2] The local Cocos Malay name of the bird is ayam hutan ("chicken of the forest").[3]
- ^ Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi — Buff-banded Rail (Cocos (Keeling) Islands), Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Australia.
- ^ Commonwealth of Australia. (2005). National Recovery Plan for the Buff-banded Rail (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra. ISBN 0-642-55226-6
- ^ Bird stamps from Cocos Islands