Madeira rail

{{Short description|Extinct species of bird}}

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| fossil_range = Holocene

| extinct = yes

| genus = Rallus

| species = lowei

| authority = Alcover et. al., 2015

}}

The Madeira rail (Rallus lowei) is an extinct species of Rallus that inhabited Madeira Island in Madeira during the Holocene epoch.{{Cite journal |author1=Josep Antoni Alcover |author2=Harald Pieper |author3=Fernando Pereira |author4=Juan Carlos Rando |year=2015 |title=Five new extinct species of rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from the Macaronesian Islands (North Atlantic Ocean) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4057 |issue=2 |pages=151–190 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.1 |pmid=26701473 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10261/132286}}