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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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