It differs from the first winter dress "in having the chin and throat heavily streaked with irregular chains of black spots veiled with white edgings, the wings and tail blacker and the edgings a brighter gray.
Below, whitish edgings obscure the black streaks, the chestnut ear-coverts and the bright lemon-yellow areas.
First nuptial plumage acquired by wear, through which the buff edgings of the black areas, the olive edgings of the back and the yellow edgings below are almost completely lost, the plumage becoming clear gray, white, yellow and black.
In juvenal plumage the edgings of the wings and tail are greener tinged than those of the male.
There is a limited prenuptial molt about the head, and wear has removed most of the edgings and fading has made the under parts clearer.
In juvenal plumage the wing edgings are usually duller, the first winter plumage being similar to that of the male but browner, the yellow tints nearly lost and the streakings obscure and grayish.
The black chin is assumed by the male and the forehead becomes yellower by moult, wear removing the edgings everywhere so that the streakings below and the throat become jet-black.
In juvenal dress the wings and tail are usually browner with duller edgings and the streaking below obscure.
He describes the young male as "above, pale yellowish olive-green, the edgings of the wing coverts paler.
The head becomes plumbeous gray, the edgings only half concealing the rich chestnut of the crown.
Useful annuals for edgingsof beds and, walks, and for ribbon-beds.
An evergreen shrub, useful for hedges and edgings in cities; several varieties, some of them very dwarf.
One advantage of using edgings of this kind, especially in kitchen gardens, is that they do not harbour slugs and similar vermin, which all live edgings do, and often to a serious extent, if they are left to grow large.
Edgings may also be formed of narrow slips of sandstone flag, slate, tiles or bricks.
Upper parts black or blackish, in summer with rusty-red edgings and white tips of many feathers, in winter these edgings gray, a light line over the eye and a dark line from the bill to the eye.
The whole of these edgings and insertions are intended to be worked either with or without beads.
Honiton sprigs and edgings are done in detached pieces, which are afterwards laid on Brussels net, and run on in any form that fancy may dictate.
The silver destined to form the ornamental edgings is laminated exceedingly thin; a square inch sometimes weighing no more than 10 or 12 grains.
The pointed edgings of both pieces are bobbin-made lace, sometimes called plaited lace Together 9 ft.
The narrower edgings (Plate 98) were used for the fine white lawn head-dresses worn with the beautiful national gala dresses, now only preserved by the great Maltese families as relics of the past.
This plant is valuable for making edgings to the flower garden.
There are certain hardy perennial yellow-flowered Alyssums which are useful for prominent edgings and for rockwork.
They are better adapted for edgings than for mass effects in the main parts of the grounds.
Young with rustyedgings to feathers on the back; below, rusty buff with blackish spots or streaks; thighs barred with blackish.
Adults in the dark phase are uniform blackish-brown, with some rusty edgings and with thighs more or less rusty.
Linnaeus of the Philippines, but is darker with nape more rufous-brown; upper parts marked with narrower and darker edgings to feathers and with pronounced whitish spotting.
Immature: Resembles adult, but entirely green with yellowedgings on feathers and lacking crimson crown and colored breast patch.
Take up the box edgings where they have outgrown their proper size, and part and plant them afresh.
This was ornamented in a variety of ways, either by edgings of fur or by embroidery.
Differs from the adult in being slightly duller in color, in having the quills externally washed with olive, and the breast and abdomen obscured by hoary whitish edgings to the feathers.
The young bird, when fully fledged, retains its first feathers for at least one year, the only change being that the brown colors become darker and the rufous edgings abraded and consequently less marked.
Similar to Macropygia tenuirostris but larger and darker; cinnamon edgings on inner primary webs and rufous edging of wing-coverts narrower or obsolete.
Most of the feathers of the shoulders, scapulars and secondaries are broadly edged with chestnut; these edgings are paler in winter.
This plumage is worn all through the fall and winter, with no change except by wear and fading; before winter the edgings have largely disappeared.
The cinnamon has nearly disappeared in September birds and all the buff edgings have faded or worn away.
These edgings are much browner in scolopaceus and paler buff in griseus.
There is very little difference between the summer and winter plumages; the feather edgings of the upper parts are more rufous in summer and more ashy in winter.
The tawny edgings of the upper plumage soon fade and wear away before the postjuvenal molt begins during August.
By September young birds are in first winter plumage, which is like that of the adult, except that the entire juvenal wing is retained with the buff edgings faded out to white.
This plumage is much like that of the adult, but it can be distinguished during the first summer by its looser texture and by broader brown edgingson the wing coverts, scapulars, and tertials.
They can be distinguished from adults by the buffy edgings above and by the absence of dusky streaks on the throat and upper breast.
Box edgings should be cut about the beginning of April, or in the end of July.
Ornamental circlets round the upper arm, which are not infrequently met with in pictures, must be regarded as gold-embroidered edgings or bands.
Buckinghamshire is the only one of the Midland counties which has produced wide lace; the adjoining counties confined themselves to edgings at most some 6 inches wide.
Any time in this or beginning of next month will answer to make edgings of these; and if dry weather occurs before they begin to grow after planting, they must have frequent waterings until they have taken fresh root.
The use of edgings is to keep the soil from the gravel, and the larger they are allowed to grow the more ineffectual they become; growing more open below as they advance in height.
They flower very early, and make good edgings where they are kept in order; flowering profusely from April to June, and flowering again in autumn.
To keep these edgings in order, they must be cut once a year, and never be allowed to get above four inches high, and two inches wide.
Cut the edgings with an edging iron or spade, so that the whole will have a finished appearance.
Finish all by raking evenly, straighten the edgings with the line, and clear out the alleys or pathways.
In winter, the lower parts are pale grey, the upper parts have the purplish tints much fainter, the white edgings substituted by dull grey.
In autumn and winter the red edgingsof the upper parts are substituted by light grey.
The prince was armed, with breastplate and shoulder-piece embroidered with beautiful edgings of gold, and his clothing was elegant and showy.
The royal arms were also stamped upon their breasts on their black corselets, girdled with a beautiful variety of bands and edgings of gold.
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