MOOR-HEN. 



WATER-HEN. COMMON GALLINULE. MOAT-HEN. 

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MOOR-COOT. MARSH-HEN. 



PLATE CLXXXI. FIG. I. 



Gallinula cliloropus, . . . Pennant. MoNTAGr. 

 Fulica chlorojpus. .... Bewick. Fleming. 



The nest of the Moor-Hen, which, is large, is strongly 

 put together, though only of rough workmanship, and 

 is commonly found well concealed among reeds, long 

 grass, or the roots of trees, just above the water's edge, 

 on the margin of a stream or by a bank. It has been 

 known as much as three feet above the surface, on the 

 stump of a tree, or even on the lower branches of a 

 fir, or in a thorn bush at that elevation. The E,ev. 

 Leonard Jenyns has recorded one instance in which it 

 was constructed among the ivy encircling a large elm, 

 which hung over the water's edge, at the height of at 

 least ten feet from the ground. A writer in the "Maga- 

 zine of Natural History," mentions another placed in 

 a fir tree twenty feet above the water. He says, "there 

 was a reason for it, the rising of the water in the 

 pond frequently flooded the banks of the island, and, 

 as I had before witnessed, had destroyed several broods." 

 One was built upon the branches of a willow over- 

 hanging the lake at Castle Howard, at a height of four 

 or five feet above the water. 



