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  • The = pileus = is wood brown to fawn, clay color or isabelline color.
  • -- Cinereous above, white below; the colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge.
  • -- Fur long and full, pale, sandy mouse-coloured above, isabelline below; pale on the well-clad limbs, and also on the tail laterally and underneath.
  • All the birds, reptiles, and insects of Sahara, says Canon Tristram, copy closely the grey or isabelline colour of the boundless sands that stretch around them.
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