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She was a child, and all life came as play to her, yet she understood love to the tips of her little madder-brown fingers.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The ground color is white, either pure or creamy, sparingly mottled with rich madder-brown and lilac-gray, the spots being thicker and larger on the larger end.
Our Bird Comrades 1896
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Burgess describes them as a rich madder colour, spotted and blotched with grey and madder-brown: Layard as pale cream, with darker markings. "
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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