Lewinia

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| image = Lewinia muelleri.jpg

| image_caption = Auckland rail (Lewinia muelleri)

| taxon = Lewinia

| authority = Gray, GR, 1855

| type_species = Rallus lewini{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=42 |title= Rallidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-27}}

| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1838

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = see text

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Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1855 | title=Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum | location=London | publisher=British Museum | pages=120, 150 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136759}} The genus name is from a synonym of the type species Rallus lewinii Swainson, 1837.{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title=Lewinia | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/lewinia | accessdate=8 July 2019 }} The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2019 | title=lewinii | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/lewinii| accessdate=8 July 2019 }}