The markings are invariably most dense about the large end, where they form a zone or cap, regular, well defined and confluent in some specimens, irregular, ill-defined and blotchy in others.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
In some the markings are bold, large, and blotchy, in others minute and speckly; and in both forms there is a tendency to confluence towards the large end, where there is commonly a more or less perfect, but irregular, zone.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
Those of the Tailor-bird are typically blotchy, of the present species speckly.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume