The = pileus = is wood brown to fawn, clay color or isabelline color. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Cinereous above, white below; the colour varies from pure ashy grey to grey with an isabelline tinge. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
To begin with, all the smaller denizens of the desert -- whether butterflies, beetles, birds, or lizards -- must be quite uniformly isabelline or sand-coloured. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
I made the following notes regarding them: Fur very fine, close and silky, rufescent brown, more rufous on the head, isabelline below; feet flesh-coloured, hinder ones large, much larger than those of the. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
General colour sandy, more or less mixed with dusky; pale isabelline on the sides; no grey on rump; tail dark brown above; ears without black tip; lower parts white; fur soft and long; fore-legs very pale, brown in front; hind-legs still paler, brown outside. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Pale sandy brown; almost isabelline on back and sides; rump greyish-white; tail black above; face and anterior portion of the ears concolorous with back; terminal portion of ears black outside at the edge; breast light rufous; lower parts white; fur fine, close and soft; fore-legs in front, and hind-legs outside, with a light brownish tinge. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Hence, without exception, the upper plumage of every bird, whether lark, chat, sylvain, or sand-grouse, and also the fur of all the smaller mammals, and the skin of all the snakes and lizards, is of one uniform isabelline or sand colour. ". From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
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