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Similar to No. 372, but darker both above and below, dark markings everywhere heavier; flanks, legs and feet more rufescent.
COLOR KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDSFRANK M. CHAPMAN
Similar to No. 758, but back, tail, and flanks without brownish or rufescent tinge.
COLOR KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDSFRANK M. CHAPMAN
Above dusky slate colour with rufescent tips to the fur; beneath paler, with a faint rufous tinge about the breast (Jerdon).
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLONROBERT A. STERNDALE
Blyth seems to think that this animal gets more rufescent with age, judging from two examples sent from Mergui.
NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLONROBERT A. STERNDALE
Under side varying from pale rufescent grey to light rufous or dull grey.
A HAND-BOOK TO THE PRIMATES, VOLUME 1 (OF 2)HENRY O. FORBES
The caps were obtusely convex and of a grayish rufescent color.
THE MUSHROOM, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISEM. E. HARD
The gills are notched, crowded, pallid or rufescent, narrow.
THE MUSHROOM, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISEM. E. HARD
The gills are annulato-adnexed, distant, rufescent with a yellow tinge.
THE MUSHROOM, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISEM. E. HARD
The rufescent ant has lost even the very power of feeding itself.
FALLING IN LOVEGRANT ALLEN
In the drawing the rufescent and normal plumages of the adults are so well delineated that no description seems necessary.
NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATESTHOMAS G. GENTRY

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