1.To the right was a mill, with a great pond thick with bulrushes and water-lilies, full of water-birds, coots and moorhens, which swam about, uttering plaintive cries.

2.But by the time Mark had got there the little moorhens had hidden in the grasses beside the stream, though one swam out for a minute, and then concealed itself again.

3.A damp, rheumatic place, she said to herself, although she loved the river; and its backwaters, full of wild duck and dabchick and the moorhens, were enchanting places.

4.It was a Hawaiian stilt, which like the duck, moorhen and coot, is a federally endangered species.

5.While we were going by the pond, in the lower meadow, a moorhen scuttled to her nest in the tangle on the bank.

6.The moorhen, meanwhile, invariably escaped; yet Bob failed to understand that he was the only diver in the pack.

7.Ducks, mergansers, geese, coots and moorhens can be targeted.

8.There, too, a moorhen goes, sometimes diving under the bough.

9.The girls were naturalists enough to remove their tree-trunk from the island, lest it should tempt marauding boys to go across and discover the moorhen’s nest.

10.The game birds consist of grouse, blackcock, moorhen, quail and partridge.

11.From time to time a moorhen scuttered along the surface of the pond, and the smell of night-flowering tobacco floated into the quiet room.

12.Suddenly, as they do, the trout had ceased to rise, and a single short squawk came from the moorhens' nest.

13.Cries like those of doves, cuckoos, green pigeons, parrots, bees, moorhens, geese, ducks and quails are important options for use in moaning.”

14.She decided to go halves, to take two and leave two in the nest to console the moorhen when she came back.

15.You can count thirty or forty coots, besides moorhens and a dozen dabchicks or so, and at the end where the mill stands there are fat duck and a bevy of swans.

16.Pan was by his side in a minute; he had heard the splash, and seen the young moorhens, and with a whine, as Mark kicked him—unable to hold him any longer—he rushed across.

17.It was made of rushes, twined round like a wreath, or perhaps more like a large green turban, and there were three or four young moorhens in it.

18.Among the flags and the rushes of the pond, a pair of fussy moorhens built their nest on an islet of decayed vegetation clustered round a stone.

19.This continued for some few minutes, when I shot at the spot, and immediately a moorhen rose to the surface.

20.The dabchick, a slender bird, haunts the pond here too, diving even more quickly than the moorhen.