maroon-red

There were no fewer than five species of teal, the commonest a dark brown bird with black mottlings; another, very common, was pale grey, the plumage beautifully barred and pencilled with brown and black; then we had the blue-winged teal, a maroon-red duck which ranges from Patagonia to California; the ringed teal, with salmon-coloured breast and velvet-black collar; the

Far Away and Long Ago 1881

A still more interesting bird was the jacana, as it is spelt in books, but pronounced ya-sa-NA by the Indians of Paraguay, a quaint rail-like bird supposed to be related to the plover family: black and maroon-red in colour, the wing-quills a shining greenish yellow, it has enormously long toes, spurs on its wings, and yellow wattles on its face.

Far Away and Long Ago 1881

The ground-colour pinky white to a warm pink; the markings, specks, and spots, or, when three or four of these latter have coalesced, occasionally small blotches of a rich maroon-red intermixed with spots and specks and clouds of pale purple.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The ground is a beautiful salmon-pink, and it is thinly spotted, blotched, and marked with irregular lines of deep maroon-red.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The egg is a very regular, rather broad oval, has only a faint gloss, and is of a very rich deep maroon-red, slightly darker at the large end.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The eggs had a delicate pink ground, and were richly blotched, in one egg exclusively, in the others chiefly about the larger end, with chestnut, or almost maroon-red, here and there almost deepening in spots to black, and elsewhere paling off into a rufous haze.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Of another set -- "The eggs were much glossier and had a china-white ground; but instead of a multitude of small specks over the whole surface, they had nearly the whole colouring-matter gathered together at the large end in a cap of bold, almost maroon-red spots, only a very few spots of the same colour being scattered over the rest of the egg."

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Inc. specializes in gift-quality orchids like the fuchsia-red Phalaenopsis Orchid 'Star Dust' and maroon-red 'Destiny'.

Queens Gazette 2009

Cabinets, countertops, stove, fridge door, dusty knick-knacks, papers I had been meaning to put away - all splattered in a deep maroon-red like a scene from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Siskiyou Daily News Homepage RSS 2009

The wine was a deep maroon-red, not unlike the color of borscht.

Siskiyou Daily News Homepage RSS 2009