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CHAPTER XXIX.
THE WATERHENS.
If you see a bird like a long-legged chicken, with
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its tail stuck up and its head nodding at every stride, and it skulks away and disappears in a hedge, or among the grass and rushes on the margin of a pond, then that is a Waterhen. There are many kinds in India, including the British Moorhen, and several of them are likely enough to be found in Bombay, but they are great skulkers and do not willingly give you a good view. There is
