On the coast,136 a small dusky-coloured bird (Opetiorhynchus Patagonicus) is very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

They rose in one unbroken sweep from the water's edge, and were covered to the height of fourteen or fifteen hundred feet by the dusky-coloured forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

The skipper stood on the bridge of his dusky-coloured vessel as she soused through the waters of the grim North Sea, his keen eyes ever on the alert fore and aft, and occasionally on the sister ship to his, coupled along with the "broom.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

Then we crossed rocky channels of clear rippling water, hedged by dwarf oaks and the dusky-coloured olive, underneath which flourished the dark-green fig-tree, with its strawberry-red marrowy fruit, bared by the bursting of its emerald-green rind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832] Reference

On the coast4 a small dusky-coloured bird (Opetiorhynchus Patagonicus) is very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XIII] Reference

I have often speculated as to what advantage the brilliant white C could give to the otherwise dusky-coloured "Comma butterfly".    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

They rose in one unbroken sweep from the water’s edge, and were covered to the height of fourteen or fifteen hundred feet by the dusky-coloured forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter X] Reference

Nest rather a shallow cup placed in a thorny tree about ten feet from the ground, neatly made of grass and moss, lined with fine grass and a few feathers, covered a great deal on the outside with dusky-coloured cobwebs, 2·5 inches across and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

It was a bright starlit night, and the long procession of big bullocks looked weird and strange in the gloom, for at times they seemed to be drawing nothing, so closely did the tilt of the great lightly-loaded wagon assimilate with the drab dusty tint of the parched earth and the dusky-coloured scrub which the great wheels crushed down.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dash from Diamond City] Reference