The American Purple Gallinule ( Porphyrio martinicus ) is a " swamp hen " in the rail family Rallidae.

It was a grotesque hen, five or six feet tall.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.

The purchase was effected and they made their way towards the hotel again, the hen, with whom some sort of communication had been set up, nestling in the doctor's arms.

Alex entered first and was followed by the doctor who, for all his care, manifested a perceptible bulge on his left side where the hen was cradled.

The hen appeared to have no doubts as to her duties and was quick to settle down to the performance of them.

The doctor sat down rather wearily, caressing the hen and remarking that the city was not the place for a poultry-loving man, but no sooner was the remark out than a knock at this door obliged him to cover the hen with his greatcoat once more.

Next, the hen was nested and all seemed well.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

While Kepler considered most traditional rules and methods of astrology to be the " evil-smelling dung " in which " an industrious hen " scrapes, there was an " occasional grain-seed, indeed, even a pearl or a gold nugget " to be found by the conscientious scientific astrologer.

Under the section entitled " Whether the hen or the egg came first ", the discussion is introduced in such a way suggesting that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

... the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble.

" Among the experiments made ... was one upon a safe twenty-nine inches cube, with walls four inches and three quarters thick, made up of plates of iron and steel ... hen a hollow charge of dynamite nine pounds and a half in weight and untamped was detonated on it, a hole three inches in diameter was blown clear through the wall ...

In 1972, Shakur was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the FBI alleged that she was the " revolutionary mother hen " of a Black Liberation Army cell that had conducted a " series of cold-blooded murders of New York City police officers ", including the " execution style murders " of New York Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones on May 21, 1971 and Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie on January 28, 1972.

A traditional garnish was unlaid chicken eggs, which were taken from a hen and boiled in the soup.

Shi Qian steals the innkeeper's hen and falls into a trap and is captured.

Shi Qian steals the innkeeper's hen and is captured.

A part-time farmer needs unusual skill to get as high production per hen, per cow, or per acre as can be obtained by a competent full-time farmer.

The adult rooster can be distinguished from the hen by his larger Comb ( anatomy ) | comb

Any eggs not fertilized by a rooster will not hatch, and the hen eventually loses interest in these and leaves the nest.

Despite 19th Century efforts to protect the hen, by 1927, the population of birds had dropped to 13.

The letter never reaches its intended destination, ending up in a midden heap where it is unearthed by a hen named Biddy.

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This claim was endorsed by Lord Bingham of Cornhill in Jackson v Attorney General who argued that " hen 1911, as now, the Crown in Parliament was unconstrained by any entrenched or codified constitution.

Thus, given the fact that all heath hen specimens from known localities studied by Johnson and Dunn are Martha's Vineyard birds – where the population may never have exceeded several thousand due to the limited space and limited genetic exchange with the mainland – it is possible that the low genetic diversity and apparent distinctness of the Heath Hen are an artifact of the small number of useful specimens, all from the same close-knit population.

* Henrietta Pussycat ( voiced by Fred Rogers ) — Henrietta is a cat who is X's neighbor and lives in a small yellow and orange school house ( questioned whether it is also supposed to be a hen house, due to her nickname Hen ) supported by a strong limb on the tree.

Gwion, having accidentally taken some of wisdom potion that Ceridwen was brewing for her son, fled her through a succession of changes that she answered with changes of her own, ending with his being eaten, a grain of corn, by her as a hen.

Charlock and Shepherd's purse may carry clubroot, eelworm can be harboured by chickweed, fat hen and shepherd's purse, while the cucumber mosaic virus, which can devastate the cucurbit family, is carried by a range of different weeds including chickweed and groundsel.

Annual and biennial weeds such as chickweed, annual meadow grass, shepherd's purse, groundsel, fat hen, cleaver, speedwell and hairy bittercress propagate themselves by seeding.

The brooding hen is fed by her partner outside the nest.

On their migration across the Great Lakes, Greater Scaups are at risk of ingesting selenium by eating the invasive zebra mussels, which can render a hen infertile.

Yet a third method, cited by Dr. David Christianus at the University of Giessen during the 18th century, was to take an egg laid by a black hen, poke a tiny hole through the shell, replace a bean-sized portion of the white with human semen, seal the opening with virgin parchment, and bury the egg in dung on the first day of the March lunar cycle.

After hatching the chicks are dependent on getting warmed by the hen.

In cold and rainy weather the chicks need to get warmed by the hen every few minutes and all the night.

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).

) and that servants would sometimes bargain with a new employer for not being given heath hen for food more often than two or three days a week.

Several lyrics make explicit references to events in his life: " hen the swingset hit his head " refers to event in Gacy's childhood, when a swing hit his head and caused a blood clot in his brain ; " He dressed up like a clown for them / with his face paint white and red " alludes to the nickname given to Gacy — the " Killer Clown "; and " He put a cloth on their lips / Quiet hands, quiet kiss on the mouth " references Gacy's use of chloroform to subdue and molest his victims.

Subjects interacted with an unfamiliar hen and were then given access to food, using an instrumental conditioning procedure.

Tall growing vigorous weeds such as fat hen ( Chenopodium album ) can have the most pronounced effects on adjacent crops, although seedlings of fat hen that appear in late summer will only produce small plants.