The alternate white and rufous spots bear a fanciful resemblance to eyes.
The eland had turned from a rufous dun colour to that of a leaden blue; the saliva fell from his lips in long streamers, foam dappled his broad chest, the tears rolled out of his big eyes, and his gallop became changed to a weary trot.
Young females have the beak and upper plumage sepia brown, each feather edged with rufous brown; the nape varied with white or rufous white.
Young birds have the whole back up to the nape of the neck and down to the tail coverts dark brown, each feather tipped with a lighter and more rufous brown.
Lesser Falcon (Falco minor) This hawk very much resembles the last, but has longer legs, and a slight rufous tinge on the plumage.
The under parts of the body have a more or less pronounced rufous tinge; and the ends of the wings, when closed, approach more nearly to the end of the tail.
The upper plumage is a rather dull dark brown, with fulvous and rufous buff edgings.
The flanks and thighs, especially in the male, assume a more and more distinctrufous colour.
Tunisian Lanner, or Alphanet, are local species, having a more strongly rufous coloration than F.
In adults the head becomes much lighter, and sometimes dull white, but with a more or less rufous brown tint and streaks of darker colour.
The under plumage, pale fawn colour, becoming more rufous at the lower part and on the thighs; streaked with dark brown splashes on the breast, and spots on the abdomen.
But after the moult this rufous colouring becomes still more conspicuous, and spreads to the flanks and under surface of the wings, as well as to the upper throat.
This is a hawk of the hobby type, much darker on the under parts, and with a good deal of black and rufous on the under surface of the wings.
The upper plumage alters to a slatey brownish grey, most of the feathers being barred with a darker brown, and still tipped with a rufous line.
Males in the immature plumage differ from females only in having a somewhat more rufous hue on the lighter part.
The tail is greyish brown on the upper surface, tipped with more or less rufous white, and barred with five or six rather irregular and rather faint bands of darker brown.
Younger individuals may be more tinged with rufous above and below.
Younger birds may have less rufous on head but feathers of body more rufous with creamy edges.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but darker brown above with fine vermiculations of blackish color; underparts may be pale or dark rufous with slight or heavy white and brown barrings and spots.
Immature: Resembles adult, but lighter and more rufousin color; wings and rump paler, wings edged with rufous buff.
How conspicuous the rufous rump appeared when they entered the nest!
With the field-glasses could be distinctly seen her belted markings of white, her ashy blue and rufous color, and her elevated occipital crest.
From four to six bluish-white eggs, sometimes yellowish-brown or rufous markings, are laid.
The female is larger than the male and its plumage is a more rufous brown; but there are two varieties in this species, a red and a grey, the colour being independent of sex; the rufous form is more common in Great Britain.
Arrived, and preparing to nest, end of April: a few white-throats and rufous warblers early in May.
On the outer side of the forelegs is a black patch above the knee surrounded by three white spots; legs below the knee bright rufous colour; tail, 1 foot 8 inches long, black above, with tip and inside white.
The prevailing colour of the plumage is rufous brown on the upper, and whitish brown on the under surface.
The upper surface and wings olive-brown; tail dark; throat and breast grey; middle of the belly white, with a broad ruddy rufous patch on each side reaching to the belly.
The tertiaries and rectrices are tipped with palerufous grey.
The Red-bellied Thrush, distinguished from the species just described by its larger size and the bright rufous colour of its under plumage, is common everywhere in the Plata region, and does not appear to be migratory.
The plumage is generally grey, with more or less rufous colour on the crown; they have long legs, and run swiftly on the ground, frequent open sterile situations, and perch only occasionally on trees.
In every way it is adapted to the conditions of the pampas in a far greater degree than other pampean birds, only excepting the rufous and spotted tinamous.
The large tail feathers are less brown and more rufous in colour, with lighter rufous marbling mixed with brown.
On the other hand, I have not seen juvenile examples; but it is very likely that the rufous face of the North Island specimen is a character peculiar to the North Island form, which would then be a sub-species of S.
Certainly, however, the colouration in general is slightly more rufous than {78} in S.
Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white.
Its general color is brown, with rufous color on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail.
The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.
The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general color is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head.
In the male the head and nape are rufous red; the back, wings, and tail are black, varied with white.
Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufousmixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
The name is derived from the bird's beautiful buff and rufous color which is somewhat like that of the robes worn by the Brahmin priests.
In the morning our traps contained several rare shrews, five silver moles, a number of interesting mice, and a beautiful rufous spiny rat.
The larger one is known as the rufous and the smaller one as the spotted tinamou.
The complexion is swarthy oftentimes, the hair and eyes very constantly dark, without the rufous tendency which appears in the other branch.
This rufous tendency in the Oriental Jew is emphasized by many observers.
This relatively small cat, uniformly coloured, is generally of some shade of brownish-grey, but in some individuals the fur has a rufous coat, while in others grey predominates.
Europe is a very handsome species; its fur is rufous above and white beneath.
The adult male of this species has a rufous breast band, while the female has only a greenish one.
Of leaves and strips of bark, lined with fine grasses; on the ground in clumps of weeds or blackberry vines; eggs white, sparingly spotted around the large end with rufous (65.
This is very similar to the last, but in color is much more rufous on the upper parts, and the tail is of a bright chestnut color crossed by several bands of black.
In form this duck is much like the last, but in color is more of a rufous all over, being darkest on the upper parts.
This species is somewhat darker, and more rufouson the under tail coverts than the above.
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