His head and neck are of a cinereous colour, and the rest of a pale yellowish brown.
There are Mice of various colours, but the most common kind is of a dark, cinereous hue: white mice are not uncommon, particularly in Savoy and some parts of France.
For over an hour did the atmosphere carry thiscinereous cloud; during which period lasted the imprisonment of the travellers.
At least a dozen species of owls frequent the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company--the largest of which is the cinereous owl, whose wings have a spread of nearly five feet.
A vertebral cinereous vitta, from which an oblique cinereous irregular line is drawn from the vertex to the side behind the anterior feet; another double one from the middle of the back to the posterior thighs.
The wing coverts with bluish cinereous gray edgings; two wing bands white, faintly tinged with canary-yellow.
Flesh= fragile, white, becoming cinereous with age, reddish under the cuticle, taste mild.
Median yellow line on breast and abdomen well developed; sides cinereousor ashy gray.
American toads are of a cinereous or light red colour, sometimes variegated, covered with warts, and bristly like a hedgehog.
Female pale brown, above variegated with black, below stained with red on the breast; flanks and lower belly striated with black; tail cinereous brown, with black cross bars.
Female greyish olive; beneath yellow, passing into cinereous on the flanks and belly.
The zisel is of a uniform cinereousgrey colour, but the hamster is marked with three large white spots on each side of the breast.
The summer birds had by this time entirely deserted us, leaving for our winter companions the raven, cinereous crow, ptarmigan, and snow-bird.
The stillness was so great that even the twittering of the whiskey-johneesh, or cinereous crow caused us to start.
Cinereous above, white below; the colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge.
Alcorn found the cinereous shrew at most of his trapping stations.
The cinereous shrew was taken principally in moist woodlands, grassy areas, and adjacent to water.
The Cinereous Cuckoo is smaller than the preceding species, and also differs in having a square tail and a more curved beak.
Abdomen immaculate, with a minute spot on the posterior border of the petiole; the third and following segments with a fine cinereous pile.
Thorax: a stout tooth on each side of the scutellum at its base; wings dark brown with a coppery effulgence, subhyaline at their base; beneath clothed with short cinereous pubescence.
Abdomen delicately punctured; the apical margin of the first segment with a narrow yellow border slightly interrupted on each side; the apical segments with a thincinereous pile.
