rufous

• A couple of rufous, brown-headed, and dirty speckle-breasted swallows appeared to-day for the first time this season, and lighted on the ground. —  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II, 1869-1873
• The microphones fed the song duets of rufous-and-white wrens into a single laptop computer, enabling researchers to pinpoint the exact positions of the colourful songbirds. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
• The same thing occasionally occurs in England, when the common shrew may be found impaled by the rufous-backed shrike (_Lanius collurio SUB-GENUS SORICULUS (_Blyth The foregoing species being of the white-toothed variety (with the exception of S. melanodon_, which, however, exhibits coloration decidedly the reverse of the following type), we now come to the shrews with teeth tipped with a darker colour; the dentition is as in the restricted shrews, with the peculiarity of colour above mentioned. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• All parts, however, whether white or rufous, are equally pervaded by the black stripes. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• 134 HABITAT.--South-east Himalayas, Assam, and Burmah Illustration: Urva cancrivora DESCRIPTION.--"General colour fulvous iron-grey, inner fur woolly, outer of long straggling lax hairs, generally ringed with black, white, and fulvous; in some the coat has a variegated aspect; in others a uniform tawny tint prevails, and in a few dark rusty brown mixed with grey is the prevalent hue; abdomen brown; limbs blackish-brown; a white stripe on either side of the neck from the ear to the shoulder; tail rufous or brown, with the terminal half rufous" (_Jerdon_). —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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