speckled

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The traders sometimes call it the 'speckled partridge-hawk,' for there are some of them more spotted than this one is.”

From Popular Adventure Tales by Reid, Mayne

The traders sometimes call it the ‘speckled partridge-hawk,’ for there are some of them more spotted than this one is.”

From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by Harvey, William

I am like the man in Browning who mourned over the spots upon his ‘speckled hide,’ but rejoiced in the swansdown of his lady. 

From A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir