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CHAPTER Y. 
WATER BIRDS.— WADERS. PRESSIROSTRAL NARROW- 
BEAKED. WATER-HENS — ANECDOTES OF NESTS OF. 
COOTS NESTS OF. JACANAS — SINGULAR FOOT OF. 
■ — HORNED SCREAMERS.- — RAILS. OYSTER CATCHERS 
— TAMED. CULTRIROSTRA CUTTING BILLED. — 
HERONS TOOTHED-CLAW OF VORACITY OF. 
STORKS AND CRANES — MIGRATIONS OF— RESPECT PAID 
TO. GIGANTIC CRANE PARTICULARS RESPECTING. 
JABIRU. ANASTOMUS OPEN-BEAKED. TANTALUS. 
Table XXII. (See vol. i., p. 20.) 
Order 5. Waders. Tribe 1. Pressirostres, {Narrow- 
beaked.) 
We now come to a different class of birds from 
those of which we have been hitherto treating, 
though still with a connecting link between them, 
so fine as scarcely to mark the point where the 
one begins, or the other ends : a numerous and 
widely-extended race, living and seeking their food 
more or less amongst the waters. Some are fitted 
for swimming, — others are not : to make up for this 
deficiency, the latter are furnished with long legs 
for wading, or long bills for penetrating the mud, — 
usually, though not always, with both. 
The first of these to which we would allude, is 
the Water-Hen ( Gallinula chloropus). That pretty, 
smart, active bird, which we may almost at any time 
see, if we peep cautiously and silently through the 
hushes of an old marsh-pit, in a meadow, or a pond 
half choked up with rushes, or well-paved, if we may 
so express ourselves, with the broad floating leaves of 
