The clutch is two to five eggs that are white with brownish, ruddy or grey blotches particularly at the wide end.

Some faint, gray blotches still showed on the inner sides of his wrists.

The coat is a yellowish grey with large, handsome grey blotches, the 'clouds' that give it its name.

The world above him became a handful of gray blotches cast on greater blackness: patches where shingles missing from the shelter roof showed the sky.

The longer she worked, the more her left hand - covered with red smears, gray blotches and gold patches - resembled a painter's palette.

Three eggs are laid, ashy grey with green and grey blotches.

As a juvenile it is remarkably different, having a tan or cream-colored body with brown or grey blotches.

"All there is is a gray blotch," he said.

"A gray blotch that is some sixty meters wide, appears to be about one hundred meters high and does not cast a shadow."

Faint gray blotches patterned his round and leathery torso.