This little guy is what's known as a piebald squirrel - the term piebald applies to any animal displaying depigmented white fur. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
If a horse is "piebald", its coat has large patches of which two colours?. From Wordnik.com. [The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference] Reference
It looks to me like a "piebald" black duck. aside from the whitish-cream color the whitish ring around the bill has me stumped. From Wordnik.com. [The other day i was out taking pictures of ducks,and their was a solid white duck with some brown, does anyone have an idea what] Reference
The word "piebald" could also apply, though it generally refers to a combination of black and white. From Wordnik.com. [Roundrock Journal] Reference
They're called piebald, I believe. From Wordnik.com. [Why Beat a Dead Horse...] Reference
6. If a horse is "piebald", its coat has large patches of which two colours?. From Wordnik.com. [April 2009] Reference
For Ethel, the piebald hog, finally did as she was bid. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
Right in the midst of the hall was a great piebald bull. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Again our wise-looking piebald balked, and balked most awfully. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
She was not piebald like a horse, not spotted like a jungle cat. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Therewith, he mounted his piebald and rode in haste to the meadow. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion] Reference
They tapered in size from right to left -- the piebald on the left. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
A forest of hair, piebald brown and white, hung down all around it. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
The shaggy hair that hung down everywhere was snow white, not piebald. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning City]
On this piebald did Dumps jog through the green lanes in brown studies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829] Reference
The whole volume shines unnaturally, and has rather a piebald appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
He gave up his lodgings and his piebald, and went "in his angry mood to Tewksbury.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829] Reference
Lessons, &c. (2) Pie, -- as in magpie, piebald, -- from the two colours of the page. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
'Here he comes,' said Caper, 'with a piebald horse and a bay mare and an iron-gray mule. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And from the other two eggs shall come evil beings, piebald, with white, without colors. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest] Reference
You was ridin 'a piebald hoss, de same one you rode into South Carolina de fust time you come here. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Two were brown, and one a piebald in which a dingy chestnut strove for mastery with a dingier white. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference
Yemenite and the Tartar's piebald pony pranced in a cloud of dust as their riders slashed at each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Here, Tom Leicester, you put my side-saddle on that gray horse, and the man's saddle on the piebald there. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
At a sign from the young American girl, a stout piebald pony, harnessed to a trap, was led forward by a groom. From Wordnik.com. [The Curly-Haired Hen] Reference
White broods of pheasants are from time to time hatched on the ground; also piebald varieties are not uncommon. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Kiddie, still riding the same lank, piebald prairie pony; still unhurt in the battle; still cool and self-contained. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
He initiates and they goad him on; every time they pass the worn mountain with the piebald patch of trees at the very tip. From Wordnik.com. [Just a Mountain] Reference
Besides, a lop-eared rabbit meant a hutch, and he had already used the cover of his mother's sewing-machine for the piebald rats. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914] Reference
But it was the rider at the chief's side -- a rider astride of a lank, piebald prairie pony -- who arrested Rube's closest attention. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
And this no doubt was the cause that, just as the groom walked the piebald out of the stable towards the hall door, a maid came to Father. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
However, as the troops bellowed with joy every time they looked at my piebald countenance, somebody was pleased, which was all to the good. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
The squire vowed to fulfill the task given to his master, even though he was young and inexperienced and had only a piebald pony and a bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
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