I did not notice distillation of rufescent drops from the cap.
Under side varying from pale rufescent grey to light rufous or dull grey.
The colour varies between rufescent grey, or greyish-rufous, or white (with a brown tinge showing through from below) and silvery grey.
The caps were obtusely convex and of a grayish rufescent color.
The gills are annulato-adnexed, distant, rufescent with a yellow tinge.
The stem is about one inch long, stuffed, mealy, white, inclined to be rufescent at the base.
Blyth seems to think that this animal gets more rufescent with age, judging from two examples sent from Mergui.
Light greyishrufescent brown above, white beneath; ears short, hidden by the fur and hairy; feet whitish; tail rufescent brown.
Bennetti; the back also in the latter is more rufescent and less yellow, and the hairs are less dense.
Above dusky slate colour with rufescent tips to the fur; beneath paler, with a faint rufous tinge about the breast (Jerdon).
Deep blackish brown, very slightly rufescent in certain lights; tail slender, nearly naked, very slightly attenuated, compressed at the tip.
This species being more courageous than the other, on this account the rufescent host marches to the attack in closer order than usual, moving with astonishing rapidity.
When an emigration of a rufescent colony is going forward, the negroes are seen carrying their masters: and the contrast of the red with the black renders it peculiarly striking.
At the same time he informed me that there was a nest of the rufescent ants in the Bois de Boulogne, to which place he afterwards was so good as to accompany me.
More rufescent above and beneath; feathers of the hind neck of a pale brown with grayish edges.
Smaller; bill and tail shorter; flanks morerufescent or fulvescent.
Young birds are rather more rufescent below and have the streaks on the head tinged with rufous.
The upper surfaces are of a lighter, more olivaceous, and less rufescent color.
Similar to Iole rufigularis, but smaller, and easily recognized by the morerufescent chin and throat and the very distinct white, or whitish, shaft-lines on these parts.
Its nearest ally is Syrnium sinense, but it is easily distinguished from that species by its rufescent under surface, with the absence of white bars.
Eggs three or four, rosy or faint purplish white, thickly sprinkled with specks and spots of darker rufescent purple or claret colour.
The eggs are usually three in number, of a rosy or purplish white, sprinkled over rather numerously with deep claret or rufescent purple specks and spots.
The rufescent ant has lost even the very power of feeding itself.
The Swiss rufescent ant is a species so long habituated to rely entirely upon the services of slaves that it is no longer able to manage its own affairs when deprived by man of its hereditary bondsmen.
The rufescent ant, in fact, is a purely military caste, which has devoted itself entirely to the pursuit of arms, leaving every other form of activity to its slaves and dependents.
