waterhen

“Jan. 29, 1878. — 5 pheasants, 4 hares, 2 brace of partridges, 2½ couple of rabbits, 3 woodcock, 2 woodpigeon, 1 waterhen, 2 snipe.”

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

The white-breasted waterhen constructs its nursery in a thicket at the margin of some village pond.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

We used to stay for hours listening to its murmur, to the sharp, strange cry of the swans that were kept there, and the twitter of the waterhen to her young among the reeds.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

You saw what a fool I was making of myself, and yet you kept on drinking and carousing, and making a ninny of yourself, as though you had no more brains nor a waterhen.

Tommy Joseph Hocking 1898

Our bag for three days was seventeen teal, twelve waterhen, one pigeon.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

Charlie and I spent the afternoon in further exploring our surroundings, and on return to camp found our mates busily engaged in plucking some teal and waterhen which they had shot.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

They are almost identical in size and appearance with our British waterhen, though they seem to have less power of flight, thus enabling us to drive them from one gun to the other, and so secure a fine lot for the pot.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

That’s a bird, you non-birders out there, a type of ‘ruak’, waterhen-like, the size of a bantam hen.

KOTA BELUD BIRD SANCTUARY Glenda Larke 2007

That’s a bird, you non-birders out there, a type of ‘ruak’, waterhen-like, the size of a bantam hen.

Archive 2007-12-01 Glenda Larke 2007

(scolopax rusticola); wood snipe (scolopax fedoa); waterhen (alea arctica? vel fulica ehloropus?) quail

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792