land-rail

But that is fields; soon the land-rail will be heard in the darkness, and the bitterns will call from the reeds.

Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Demetrios Vikelas 1871

Through the quiet air came the far-off rush of water, and the near cry of the land-rail.

The Portent & Other Stories George MacDonald 1864

Not a sound broke the silence except the rough cry of the land-rail from the fields and the clatter of

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood George MacDonald 1864

Buffon, however, takes it with the land-rail; Gould and Yarrell put it between the little crake and water-hen.

Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

—the water-hen and land-rail are members of this order, yet the first is nearly as aquatic as the coot, and the second nearly as terrestrial as the quail or partridge.

VI. Difficulties of the Theory. On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure 1909

"Through the quiet air came the far-off rush of water, and the near cry of the land-rail.

Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864