Bright uniforms are no longer in the picture, which becomes drabber and easier for the change.
I sincerely trust that this drab affair will not make us even drabber still.
However, too many other schemes remain in their original homogeneous state, with row upon row of near-identical houses or flats which are even drabber now than when they were built.
The female is significantly drabber and browner than the male and has a less prominent crest.
Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white.
The drabber winter plumage is basically brown above and white below.
It is also slightly larger, has a longer beak, a drabber though more varied colouring, and a peculiarly sweet and soft song.
Juveniles are drabber, and the eye ring is greenish.
