He sniffed the sweet, rich odour of it, and scratched his head in the same spot as before--just beneath the peak of his speckled cap.
Good mornin'," he said, touching his speckledcap to the authorities.
Female--Feathers finely and inconspicuously speckled with brown, rusty black, whitish, and orange.
The eggs are nearly an inch long, white speckled with brown or gray.
Other parts streaked with very dark brown, rather faintly on the breast, giving them the speckled breast of the thrushes.
Her eggs are inconspicuous in color, dirty white speckled with brown, and laid in a sunken nest on the ground.
Sides of the throat and breast pale cream-buff, speckled with arrow-shaped points on throat and with half-round dark-brown marks below.
Wings and the short tail minutely speckled and marked with broken bands of white.
The father may be the poorest of architects, but as he patiently sits brooding over the green, speckled eggs, his beautiful rosy breast just showing above the grassy rim, he is a sufficient adornment for any bird's home.
Where it goes to make a home for its greenish-blue speckled eggs in some low bush at the northern end of its range, it bursts into song, but except in the nesting grounds its voice is never heard.
Once let the hand of man desecrate their nest, even before the tiny speckled eggs are deposited in it, and off go the birds to a more inaccessible place, where they can enjoy their home unmolested.
With infinite patience the nuthatch excavates a hole in a tree, lining it with feathers and moss, and often depositing as many as ten white eggs (speckled with red and lilac) for a single brood.
Moreouer, ouer the body they haue built a tombe of speckled stone a brace and a halfe high, [Marginal note: Or, a fathom.
The house of Abraham is also foure square, and made of speckled stone, 20.
I remember a "crimson-speckled footman" moth, Deiopeia pulchella, flying on board a steamship whilst we were fully a hundred miles from the nearest land.
The marks of the last tide were plainly visible high up on the rugged rock-face, the last tide having left every ledge covered with washed-up fucus and bladder-wrack, speckled with white shells and sandy patches.
In the nest there were nine pretty little soft chickens, looking like balls of down, some entirely yellow, others speckled with brown, one quite black.
They named the cock Emperor, because he looked so grand and proud; the two white hens they named Fairy and Lily, the black one Jet, and the two speckled ones Browny and Pet.
I was sitting on six blue, speckled eggs at the time, and didn't mind it so much, but Jim was very cross and restless, for the cage door was fastened and he bitterly resented imprisonment.
Then I called to Jim and I must say he seemed to be just as proud as I was of the little blue speckled egg which lay there so snug in the cotton.
There were blue eggs and speckled eggs, brown eggs and white, And yellow throats opening with chirpings of fright.
Rosie looked up curiously from the speckled beans she was counting into a bag, and then went on singing to herself an unformed, baby song.
Not within the memory of aged men has the trout turned fin or flashed a speckled side; but he is to this day an historical present.
And the knight and horse were equipped with arms of speckled yellow, variegated with Spanish laton.
And as they were beginning the first move of the game, they beheld at a small distance from them a tent speckled yellow, the largest ever seen, and the figure of an eagle of gold upon it, and a precious stone on the eagle's head.
In the hand of the youth was a mighty lance, speckled yellow, with a newly-sharpened head; and upon the lance a banner displayed.
In fact, this boy was not fishing for trout and so was all the more amazed when, after a sharp struggle, he landed a speckled monster on the grassy bank.
It seems ridiculous to call the handsome speckled denizens of clear, mountain streams, and the brown, ugly frequenter of the muddy St. Johns by the same name, but there is no law forbidding such trespass.
They were both speckled trout, lived side by side, ate the same food, but differed as greatly as a red-headed boy and an albino.
Other trout, the real, speckled brook-trout, are found in the streams flowing into the lake, and more than one delightful day was spent in pursuit of them.
This morning, throwing open the parlor blinds, I espy the six flat, white beans and the three red-speckled crab-apples.
The neck decorated with two shaped oval red medallions, edged with grey on a speckled green ground powdered with red chrysanthemum.
It was of rich purple on the back, with azure-blue shoulders dashed and speckled with a lighter blue, while all the under parts were of a pure white, which seemed to throw out the rich colours of the back.
You have seen that the modest speckledthrush of England has for relatives thrushes of yellow and orange.
The eggs are usually six in number, but often as many as nine, and are of a pale olive or grayish white color, thickly speckled with olive-brown.
This species is in weight about four pounds; the bill is dusky, and about four inches in length; a bare yellow skin is situated along the sides of the mouth and chin, the latter speckled with black.
Turtle Dove; the ground of its plumage is of a yellow colour, speckled over with brown spots.
In spring they fix their abode in moist and marshy meadows, where they lay their eggs, four or five in number, of a greenish-grey hue, speckled with small brown spots.
