XHE .SEA-l'AKKOTS AT HOME 



and the markings as the g-yille- 

 mot's. Some have been taken 

 spotless and colourless, like a 

 heron's ; others altogether sienna, 

 as the kestrel's sometimes is ; 

 while between these two extremes 

 of no-colour and all-colour 

 stretches as infinite a variety of 

 markings as on the pebbles on 

 the shore. Perhaps the most 

 beautiful of all are those where 

 the oTOund is a clear, bric^ht 

 green-blue, and the spots — large 

 and irregularly scattered, of a 

 rich chocolate shadinof into 

 brown-pink — ■ make on it a 

 strong, bold, well-defined pattern. 



