They lay from three to eight eggs having a ground color of buff or grayish white and blotched with light brown.
The nesting habits and eggs are the same as those of the Herring Gull, except that in a series, the eggs of the Vega will average a little darker in ground color.
The eggs are laid about the first of June; they number two to three and have a ground color of brownish or greenish brown and are blotched with umber.
They are three or four in number and have a ground color of dull white, or pale greenish blue and are quite heavily blotched with several shades of brown.
There are two distinct types of ground color, green and buff.
These are pure white in ground color, marked with fine dots of reddish brown.
They are of a light greenish blue in ground color, and are spotted and blotched heavily and irregularly with reddish browns, especially about the larger end.
Upon a mattress of fur and hair the bird lays from seven to nine eggs, white as to ground color, and sparingly dotted with pale rufous.
It is used as a ground color, in which are sections of white, and on the latter are brilliant designs in red, green, and gold.
When green is used as a ground color, as in the case of the Kien-long vase referred to (Fig.
It is used as a ground color, and fine specimens lead one to question the appropriateness of the name, as the porcelain so decorated has a brilliancy and depth far in advance of the comparatively dull stone.
Ground color of upperparts deep umber-brown, very finely and densely vermiculated; chest barred with bright tawny brown and black.
Ground color of upperparts pale raw-umber brown, mixed with pale grayish; chest and neck barred with pale brownish ochre and black.
Ground color of upperparts rusty, mixed with pale grayish buff, narrowly and irregularly barred with black; chest and neck coarsely barred with rusty and black.
These handsome eggs show a great variation, both in ground color and in markings.
But the color of the body, or "ground color" as it is called, is different among the several kinds of leopards.
For, I must tell you, the leopard lives in so many countries that he varies in size and in ground color in different countries.
The dark patches are his spots, and the bright patches are the ground color of his skin.
Ground color of soft parts dark olive to slate gray or black; ground color of carapace olive to slate gray; ground color of plastron pale yellow, markings blackish, tinged with brown in younger specimens, sooty black in most adults.
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