A vein, perhaps 5 feet thick, of a slatey substance runs across just in front of us, and contains a well, which is the only sign of fresh water I have seen so far.
Some one now tells me that the rocks are Tertiary and not Devonian, and that my slatey vein is cobalt.
Billy Louise laughed a little, leaned, and grabbed a handful of slatey mane.
She leaned over and caught a handful of Blue's slatey mane and tousled it, till he laid his ears flat on his head and nipped his nose around to show her that his teeth were bared to the gums.
Before them the fellside shelved away, strewn with slatey scree, at the foot of which a stream tumbled, and sent its thunders reverberating along the pass.
The upper plumage alters to a slatey brownish grey, most of the feathers being barred with a darker brown, and still tipped with a rufous line.
In the first moult the brown of the whole upper plumage is replaced by a slatey blue, each feather from the shoulders to the end of the tail barred transversely and tipped more or less distinctly with a lighter shade of blue-grey.
In the adult the brown of the upper plumage assumes a slatey grey hue, and the edgings of lighter colour vanish.
Adult males have the head, lower part of the back, and upper surface of tail, light slatey grey.
The warm autumnal sun lights up her feathers in their true colours of slatey brown on the back, and barred white on the breast.
In the upper plumage the brown is replaced by slatey grey, barred with a lighter blue-grey, which in patches, especially upon parts of the feathers which are habitually hidden, are nearly white.
The tail becomesslatey brown, with narrow bars of brownish grey.
Here again the upheaved slatey rock appeared, with the same dip and direction as in the Sadong River.
The summit of the small island is composed of a highly crystalline basalt; lower down I found a hard, stratified slatey sandstone, while on the beach are huge blocks of lava, and scattered masses of white coralline limestone.
The slatey rocks had ceased, and these mountains seemed to consist of a sandstone conglomerate, which was in some places a mere mass of pebbles cemented together.
It is almost entirely of a slatey colour, with yellow bill and feet, but the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts each terminate in a rigid, glossy pencil or tuft of a vivid crimson.
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