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The female has a smaller red wing patch, and more slaty head.

Then comes the reef, where the water is all slaty purple flecked with red.

The back was slaty grey with a dull greenish gloss.

The sky was low and slaty gray; a fine rain was falling.

Kept looking at me through those slaty gray eyes of his like I was a bug on a pin."

The male is slaty brown above with a white forehead and supercilium.

He turned to find Slaty himself chuckling merrily as he picked up seeds.

Normally, the nominate subspecies is the darkest, most slaty gray race.

Sixty, seventy, eighty - All your cheeks so slaty!

He throws in some inky black, bright white and slaty blue, but the emphasis is on no-color colors.

He leaned against a stone bench with four darts in his hand and looked at me with cold, slaty eyes, old eyes.

The palpus underside is slaty grey, speckled with white.

Most of this is slaty shale and mudstone.

The rest of the upperparts are slaty black, and the tail is black with white edges.

The legs were slaty grey.

The upperside and breast are slaty blue grading to grey on the flanks.

The creature of the title is described as "a man with round, fixed, fishy eyes, and soft, slaty skin.

Slaty cleavage controls the splitting properties and thickness of slate tiles or flagstones.

The hedgerows and trees are scarcely per- ceptible against the bare earth, whose slaty hue they have taken on.

This species pelage is made of long hairs that are typically pearl grey or slaty gray.

It is a large, robust looking heron, with dark, slaty wings and body, and a mostly white head and neck.

It was six-legged, I know that; its skin was slaty gray that mottled to dark brown in places.

Thorn was on the narrow bridge now, looking down at the water far below, as if fascinated by the way it crashed against the black, slaty rocks.

Mostly the Canberra Formation is slaty shale and mudstone.

Dean [ 6] described "slaty gray" eggs.