They are grayish-brown, or brown sometimes tinged with olive in ground colour, spotted with dark umber-brown and brownish-gray.
The eggs of this Skua are two in number, and vary from pale buff to dark olive-brown in ground colour, sparingly spotted and speckled with dark brown and grayish-brown.
They run from olive-brown to buffish-brown in ground colour, spotted and often streaked with darker brown and brownish-gray.
Besides varying in tint of ground colour, and in the amount of freckling or mottling, there is modification in the width of the central band.
Ground colour, sooty black, with orange-coloured raised dots, from which arise long recurved hairs.
Tutt, which in ground colour is deep blackish grey, with the cross lines faint.
This variation of ground colour, the small geometric designs at the extreme ends of the fields, the eight-pointed stars of the main stripe of the border, and some of the drawing are nomadic characteristics.
Some of them have a ground colour of green; and yellow is frequently found in the pattern.
Usually they are red contrasting with a ground colour of soft, ashy grey in the field, and of golden yellow in the rich, harmonious border.
The caterpillar (figured on Plate 1) varies in ground colour, which may be pale brown, dark brown, or green.
The {282} stigmata are outlined in black, but are rarely paler than the ground colour.
The female is much larger in size, without ochreous suffusion on the fore wings, and the hind wings have the ground colour whitish.
Few of our British eggs are handsomer, being cream-white in ground colour, thickly marked with brown of varying shades from red and crimson to nearly black.
These eggs are buff in ground colour, blotched, spotted, or streaked with brown and gray of various shades.
They make their slight nests on the banks of the water, and lay four very pretty eggs, olive or buff in ground colour, heavily marked with dark brown, paler brown, and gray.
But the coral red was also used under the glaze as a ground colour.
The difference is, of course, one of ground colour.
It is rarely used as a ground colour as it is in this case, but it is a delightful thin wash applied when thick enamels cannot be used, and it is so transparent that a darker colour can be seen through it.
The eggs number two or three, and vary from creamy-white to dark buff in ground colour.
The eggs number from four to six, greyish-white in ground colour, and thickly speckled with greyish- and yellowish-brown.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ground colour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
