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aixens naturalist’s library. 
white, with dusky bases to theleis 
brown, the feathers edged with whke ihH 
the flank-stripes bufiVwhite and ; 
red along edge oftomium and on loJer n7a°nH-’l 
S;™: »<! lg,"S: 
spring! b 7 ';S| stdZrnf'ib “f ““ in ihe following 
the adult gradually supervenes ’ ^ plumage of 
BrSfLranTanJLTe^^^^^^^ over the 
place when severe winters r^ltn "'‘fiction taking 
widely distributed in Ireland"? ^n 
founT^vrtte greate;tr;“hro;d\/^^^^^ - 
range very far norfh hrA^-^' ^ World, but does not 
In China and the Indo-Malayan region^the 
somewhat smaller in siVe but ihe h.V^ r the Moor-Hens are 
gascar (so called 6^. 
"--”>nd bSrMoti’b" 
name might seem*^t^imp]v°b?t”of moors, as its 
and the word “ moor as Mr c; '‘‘'’ers, lakes and marshes, 
equivalent of the oM^'mke^S"''' ‘^e 
sheet of water, even a small nond ’if > • ''^ry small 
by rushes or studded with weeds’ LV^ sufficiently surrounded 
Hen, and within a hundred yard’s of the”^'^ attract a xMoor- 
now writing at Chiswick Sh 180 ??°°"' •” ^ 
preparing to make their ^ P''*’’’ of birds are 
have bred for several years In LSssffi^n ' ' Cp""*’ 
couragement, and the Moor Hen hern ^ ^“^‘0 en- 
walkabout the lawn and even co„e do“ oiKoTe' f“tod" 
