For a moment she remained dazzlingly white, then faded away slowly to nothing in a squall, only to reappear again, nearly black, resembling a post stuck upright against the
slaty background of solid cloud.
"You would not have to look long among those fissures of
slaty schist without finding peptites of considerable value."
We saw the shimmering
slaty gleam of their skins between the tree-trunks, and their heads undulating high above the brush-wood.
I remember before the night fell looking out again at the outlines of her spars and rigging that stood out dark and pointed on a back- ground of ragged,
slaty clouds like another and a slighter spire to the left of the Brenzett church- tower.
"It concerns an elephant, old and wise, who fell into a trap, and the sharpened stake in the pit scarred him from a little above his heel to the crest of his shoulder, leaving a white mark." Mowgli threw out his hand, and as Hathi wheeled the moonlight showed a long white scar on his
slaty side, as though he had been struck with a red-hot whip.
We left the next morning and took a boat to the Kinabatangan Wetlands, where, again, I was surprised by the sheer number of species we were able to see in a few hours of effortless wildlife viewing: short-clawed otters, Sambar deer, crocodiles and a wonderful array of birds including a fly-past by four great
slaty woodpeckers -- the biggest in the world.
The male is
slaty grey above with a rich deep red throat and breast, pale belly and distinct white moustachial stripe.
The TYRP2 protein was identified as the enzyme DCT at the
slaty locus on chromosome 14 in mouse [9] and is known as either DCT or TYRP2 [10].
Abe, "Changes of melanosome morphology associated with the differentiation of epidermal melanocytes in
slaty mice," The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, vol.
under the cliffs were lying black lumps, apparently of
slaty stone rounded by attrition" (Flinders 1797).
This involved the installation of a water quality improvement scheme at
Slaty Sike, a tributary of Haltwhistle Burn.
