This group includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths (or tigers), which usually have bright colours, footmen (which are usually much drabber), lichen moths, and wasp moths.
The female chestnut-backed sparrow-lark is a drabber bird with heavily streaked buff-white underparts and head, and a white nape collar.
Young birds are a drabber version of the adult.
Juveniles are drabber, and the eye ring is greenish.
It is also slightly larger, has a longer beak, a drabber though more varied colouring, and a peculiarly sweet and soft song.
The drabber winter plumage is basically brown above and white below.
Non-breeding plumage is drabber with the chin and foreneck white.
The female is significantly drabber and browner than the male and has a less prominent crest.
