Tail brown (except for central and outermost feathers) tipped broadly with white, outermost feathers white with brown outerweb.

(The cover of “Underworld,” to name one uncanny example, had a planelike bird flying toward the twin towers.)

More recently, comparing the differences in the metabolism of some pesticides such as terbuthylazine, metribuzin and chlorpyrifos in biobed substrates and soil, it has been reported that the biomixtures mostly stimulated the degradation of terbuthylazine and metribuzin, whereas the soil degraded chlorpyrifos faster [14 ].

[T]here was plenty of opportunity to modernise in the years up to 1939, but since then the Second World War and its aftermath of expenditure rigidly controlled by Government held up any progress until at last the purse-strings were unloosed five years ago. But an enormous amount of leeway needs to be made up.