The eggs are pale clay color, marked with small scratchy dots of black.
Their nesting sites are the same as those chosen by the other Crested Flycatcher, but their eggs appear to have but little of the scratchy appearance of the other members.
In many illustrated books which have come down to us what must have been beautiful designs have been completely spoilt, rendered even grotesque, by the fine curves of the drawing being translated into scratchy angularities.
But draw he never so finely no artist nowadays need fear that his work will be made scratchy or angular by photographic process.
At first she heard only a funny scratchy sound; then a murmur, growing louder, as she tuned the instrument to the required wave length.
And an amplifier of this kind is notscratchy one bit.
Now, as the scratchy noise sounded at the door, the cook laid his pipe on a shelf and glanced up at a big carving-knife that hung from a rack above his head.
It was a scratchy sound as if some one were trying to unship the glass.
The patch was scratchy and hill of static, but not so much he couldn't hear.
Then he felt thescratchy hardness of the low brush and threw himself into the bramble.
The handwriting on the label, as I gazed, appeared less and less like script and more like disconnected, scratchy lines or hachures, owing to the formation of lacunae in the inky traces.
You know I fight when it comes to fighting, Scratchy Wilson, but I ain't got a gun on me.
He cried-- "Scratchy Wilson's drunk, and has turned loose with both hands.
He goes out and fights Scratchy when he gets on one of these tears.
She still looked singularly lifeless, and appeared to drag herself about with painful effort; but the place suited her, and she enjoyed sitting in the sun listening to the music which was played by a scratchy string band.
Do not write letters when on duty, and, above all things, do not write with a scratchy pen.
To a nervous person the sound of a scratchy pen traveling over the paper is torturing, and it can be heard even if you are in the next room.
The squire read the names over twice, pointing to each with his sharp, scratchy finger-nail.
Some sensitive persons rather shrank from seeing him handle these painted panels with those peculiarscratchy finger-nails; it set their teeth on edge.
So sang Monica, rather out of tune, as she reached home, in a scratchy mood, on the first afternoon of the January term, and hurried up to the fire.
Derrick, Regina, and Lesbia descended upon it like three blackbirds, and spent a scratchy but blissful ten minutes gathering and eating all they could reach.
In lieu of a local band a gramophone was giving a performance with rather scratchy records and a vast amount of burring.
Lesbia sketched her picture during geometry on the back page of her exercise book, but it was a scratchy performance and quite unworthy of her high ideals.
So many of Father's friends do want to marry me," she confided plaintively, still driving Barton back through that horrid scratchy thicket.
They won't scratch and blister your hands, but they'll make you feel all scratchy and hot and cross.
Despite the straggling scratchy lines any art critic must acknowledge that it had in it that intangible quality known as life and "go.
Had he been whipped he could hardly have yelled more; he screamed through his scratchy quill.
Something light and scratchy rubbed against her bare forefinger, which was protruding from a hole in her glove.
When you need your titled Britisher back, I'll be ready, with the accent and the infernal, scratchy whiskers.
Instantly there was the sound of hurrying footsteps, tiny scratchy footsteps, and hundreds of mice came running into the hut.
His companion produced a small bottle of ink and began to write slowly with a scratchy pen, while we stood in silence.
I often used to tease Lucy: I am cat-scratchy to every one, I fear.
It would hold these insects with their little flat heads, twirling antennae, scratchy legs and fat yellow bellies quite firmly (yet not unkindly) in its plump fingers for grave consideration; then let them go to run over the planks.
They had each a pair of beady eyes, a little pointed nose, a set of little scratchy toes, and the softest kind of a coat, fitting as snug as ever the tailor could make it.
Each bird laid his little scratchy toes on his little pointed nose and vowed that he would remember the King's commands and keep the King's secrets.
Each laid his little pointed nose on his little scratchy toes, and dropped his eyes and uttered never a word.
It had been begun in his best hand, and it must be confessed that that hand was at present a scratchy one, and there were various erasures.
Always to take the least scratchy slate, and longest slate pencil!
I hope to God they're not,' said Tom in his scratchy voice, thinking of the cinema.
Cinema,' returned Tom in a scratchy voice, 'with the family.
Getting over these falls was perilous, not to say scratchy work.
