isabelline

• “The = pileus = is wood brown to fawn, clay color or isabelline color.”

  Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.

• “All the birds, reptiles, and insects of Sahara, says Canon Tristram, copy closely the grey or isabelline colour of the boundless sands that stretch around them.”

  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

• “To begin with, all the smaller denizens of the desert -- whether butterflies, beetles, birds, or lizards -- must be quite uniformly isabelline or sand-coloured.”

  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science

• “-- Cinereous above, white below; the colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “-- General colour sandy, more or less mixed with dusky; pale isabelline on the sides; no grey on rump; tail dark brown above; ears without black tip; lower parts white; fur soft and long; fore-legs very pale, brown in front; hind-legs still paler, brown outside.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “-- Fur long and full, pale, sandy mouse-coloured above, isabelline below; pale on the well-clad limbs, and also on the tail laterally and underneath.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “I made the following notes regarding them: Fur very fine, close and silky, rufescent brown, more rufous on the head, isabelline below; feet flesh-coloured, hinder ones large, much larger than those of the”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “-- Pale sandy brown; almost isabelline on back and sides; rump greyish-white; tail black above; face and anterior portion of the ears concolorous with back; terminal portion of ears black outside at the edge; breast light rufous; lower parts white; fur fine, close and soft; fore-legs in front, and hind-legs outside, with a light brownish tinge.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “-- Pale yellowish or whitish isabelline, with small spots on the head and neck, but large blotchy rings and crescents, irregularly dispersed on the shoulders, sides and haunches; from middle of back to root of tail a medium irregular dark band closely bordered by a chain of oblong rings; lower parts dingy white, with some few dark spots about middle of abdomen; limbs with small spots; ears externally black; tail bushy with broad black rings.”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

• “Hence, without exception, the upper plumage of every bird, whether lark, chat, sylvain, or sand-grouse, and also the fur of all the smaller mammals, and the skin of all the snakes and lizards, is of one uniform isabelline or sand colour. ”

  Darwinism (1889)

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