grey-pied

Updated: May 7, 2025

In the morning, when the sunbeams warm them, all these grey-pied sleepers on the grass-tops open their wings, and the colourless bennets are starred with a thousand living flowers of purest azure. Side by side with the "blues" sleep the common "small heaths."

C. J. (Charles John) Cornish - The Naturalist on the Thames