On top of her head, she wore a small brown felt hat with one large brown-speckled feather swept across the front.
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club(1989)
The Chickadee nests in holes, usually within ten feet of the ground, laying 5-9 white, brown-speckled eggs in the first half of May.
Chapman, Frank M., What Bird is That?—A Pocket Museum...(2010)