rufous

• “The remaining laughing-thrushes are known as the rufous-chinned”

  Birds of the Indian Hills

• “Among the Rocky Mountains, and especially on the western side of the range, there dwells another little hummer called the rufous humming-bird, because the prevailing color of his plumage is reddish, and between this family and the broad-tails there exists a bitter feud.”

  Birds of the Rockies

• “There are words to represent these different grades of color, such as 'rufous' for reddish-brown and 'fuscous' for dusky-brown; these you must learn later on, for some of them are pretty hard ones.”

  Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners

• “The head and bib were a dark, rufous brown, the underside pale.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “A rufous fly-catcher is hunting for his breakfast under the verandah roof because there are no insects out in the rain.”

  The Guardian: Australian floods: Why were we so surprised?

• “A red kite was right in front of me in a gaunt old ash tree; it was a raptor of considerable size, with mottled brown and rufous plumage and a distinctive forked tail.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: East Yorkshire

• “This cisticola has a black back thus its alternative common name with rufous wing panels and a grey tail with prominent sub-terminal spots and white tips on the retrices.”

  The Guardian: Mystery bird: Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris

• “A rufous hummingbird just flew up and investigated her red and pink hat hoping it was some kind of wonderful huge flower.”

  The Huffington Post: Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker"): A Beach Walk With the Ghosts of Exxon Valdez

• “The Serranía del Darién is home to many endemic species such as the rufous-cheeked hummingbird Geothalsia bella and violet-capped hummingbird Goldmania violiceps and the frog Rhamphophyrne acrolopha.”

  Los Katíos National Park, Colombia

• “Birds found here and in only few other places include white-bellied seedeaters Sporophila leucoptera, grassland yellow-finches Sicalis luteola, chalk-browed mockingbirds Mimus saturninus, tropical peewees Contopus cinereus, rufous-throated antbirds Gymnopithys rufigula, black-breasted puffbirds Notharchus pectoralis, and plain-bellied emeralds Amazilia leucogaster.”

  Marajó varzea

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