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  • They were smaller than wrens, ‘frail’ in appearance, possessed an obvious yellow eye-stripe, and moved rapidly up and down tussac stems.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • The tiny beak is a good field mark, too — and you can very clearly see the eye-stripe and the hint of a rufous skullpatch.

    Firedoglake » Sunday Talking Head Thread 2006

  • They include the white eye-stripe hoverfly (Paragus albifrons), so rare that it was thought to be extinct until recently; and Mellet's downy-back beetle (Ophonus melletii), which has only been sighted in Britain five times in decades.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Clive Aslet 2011

  • Female blue-winged teal have a brownish-gray head with a darker crown and eye-stripe.

    unknown title 2009

  • Female blue-winged teal have a brownish-gray head with a darker crown and eye-stripe.

    unknown title 2009

  • Female blue-winged teal have a brownish-gray head with a darker crown and eye-stripe.

    unknown title 2009

  • Female blue-winged teal have a brownish-gray head with a darker crown and eye-stripe.

    unknown title 2009

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