isabelline

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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 Passing on to the tropical regions, it is among their evergreen forests alone that we find whole groups of birds whose ground colour is green.

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  1. Resembling isabel; of the hue called isabel. The upper plumage of every bird … is of one uniform isabelline or sand color. Canon Tristram, Ornith. of N. Africa (in the Ibis).
  2. Isabelline bear the Ursus isabellinus, a pale variety of the Syrian bear (Ursus syriacus), found in the Himalayas.
  3. Same as isabel. Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1902, II. 316.

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  • Deserts are the most exacting of all known environments, and they compel their inhabitants with profound imperiousness to knuckle under to their prejudices and preconceptions in ten thousand particulars 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
  • 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 Passing on to the tropical regions, it is among their evergreen forests alone that we find whole groups of birds whose ground colour is green. —  Darwinism (1889)
  • The = pileus = is wood brown to fawn, clay color or isabelline color. —  Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • -- 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
  • -- 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
 

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  1. = Spanish isabellino, from New Latin isabellinus; as isabel(l) + -ine.
 

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