brown-backed

In the Great Hall, Remco van Vliet inspected heaps of ilex berry, brown-backed magnolia and hydrangea flown in from Holland.

The Master Builder of Towers of Flowers Lauren Porcaro Dorment 2012

This is one of those brown-backed bumble bees descending on a lavender flower.

What Bees Want. Save the Clover, Save the Bees. 2009

Until after the first year of their existence the young are brown-backed, and mottled white and bluish-grey of breast, and would hardly be recognised as members of the colony, but for the shrill notes and restless activity and those flaming eyes — living gems of wondrous radiance, and the eyes epitomise the life of the bird which is all flame and fever.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

Our notice taking the shape of several little brown-backed Boers galloping about and spying at us from a hill one and a half miles to the north.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

Then the brown-backed petrels began to appear, sure precursors of the pack ice -- it was in sight right enough the day after the brown-backs were seen.

South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

Also we saw great numbers of brown-backed petrels the first day in the pack, whole flights of them resting on the icebergs.

South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

Everything had ceased to exist except a narrow shell of wood, three brown-backed natives, and one towering wave after another that shot them through delicious realms of space and left them, with every nerve a-tingle, laughing into each other's eyes.

The Honorable Percival Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

He was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode.

A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

He was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode.

A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

He was reading a brown-backed volume, but as the crowd approached he laid it aside, and listened attentively to an account of the episode.

A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902