THE CLUCKING HEN/^ 
267 
they flew heavily and slowly, with the long legs hanging 
down, and the neck stretched forward, having a very awk- 
ward appearance in the air"^/^ From this description the 
bird seems to have been, not altogether without some reason, 
referred to another family ; and it is evidently one of those 
genera which connect, as it were, two allied famihes. 
* Birds of Jamaica, p. 358. 
