water-hen

• “And not a bird was seen or heard, neither rail nor water-hen, wag-tail nor reed-warbler.”

  Lorna Doone

• “Their place on the water had been taken by a small fleet of ducks, mostly white Aylesburys, but with a visiting mallard in convoy, and one water-hen.”

  Rose cottage

• “The males of the white and black water-hen have tails something like those of a pheasant.”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “The black and white long-toed water-hen continues plentiful: when alarmed by kites, etc. it pursues them uttering a low mournful scream, until it has succeeded in getting its enemy off to some distance; it then returns,”

  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

• “After you have duly admired and examined snipe, pigeon, quail, and water-hen, your friend again rummages in the depths of his _gibecière_, and pulls out -- what?”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844

• “No wind,' said Starboard, looking up the river on which the only ripple was made by a water-hen swimming across.”

  Coot Club

• “Heron, kestrel, coot, water-hen, he had already added to his list of birds seen, and just before meeting those racing boats he had seen a bird with two tufts sticking out from the top of its head, and only its slim neck showing above the water.”

  Coot Club

• “The little black water-hen came out of the river and they fed it.”

  The King of Ireland's Son

• “And he himself followed the little black water-hen who showed him all the shallow places in the river so that he crossed with the water never above his waist.”

  The King of Ireland's Son

• “Joanna felt annoyed with her for dressing up all quiet as a water-hen, but she could see that, in spite of it, her sacrifice in having her party transferred from the glamorous evening hour had been justified.”

  Joanna Godden

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