Fundulus notatus and F. olivaceous, are they separate species?. From Wordnik.com. [(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The eggs are regular ovals, with a pale-greenish ground, blotched and spotted with a somewhat olivaceous brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
The lizard has a relative in southern Luzon, V. olivaceous, but the species are separated by three river valleys and a gap of 95 miles (150kms) and may never have met up. From Wordnik.com. [www.hardwarezone.com.sg] Reference
The eggs, five in number, are of a pale greenish-white colour, spotted all over with olivaceous inky-brown spots and specks, increasing in size and forming a zone at the large end. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
But even here the females are less brilliant than the males, and are sometimes greenish or olivaceous on the upper surface; while they very carefully conceal their nests among dense foliage, and the male is sufficiently watchful and pugnacious to drive off most intruders. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Thallus thin and inconspicuous, or becoming thick and more prominent, composed of rounded and often crowded or even heaped granules, these frequently compacted into a continuous or scattered, verrucose and often chinky, green-gray to olivaceous crust; apothecia small to large, 0.6 to. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference
Thus in the "Aeneas" group of Papilios we have the patch on the upper wings yellowish in P. triopas, olivaceous in P. bolivar, bronzy-gray with a white spot in P. erlaces, more greenish and buff in P. iphidamas, gradually changing to the fine blue of P. brissonius, and the magnificent green of P. sesostris. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Very regular, slightly elongated ovals, with scarcely any gloss on them, the ground greenish white, but everywhere thickly streaked and mottled and freckled over, most thickly about the large end, with a dull pale slightly olivaceous brown intermingled with brownish, or in some specimens faintly purplish grey. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
Endemic species throughout the region include the endangered Ash-breasted tit-tyrant (Anairetes alpinus); the critically threatened royal cinclodes (Cinclodes aricomae); Berlepsch's canastero (Asthenes berlepschi) classified as vulnerable; line-fronted canastero (Asthenes urubambensis), olivaceous thornbill (Chalcostigma olivaceum), scribble-tailed canastero (Asthenes maculicauda), short-tailed finch (Idiopsar bracyurus), and gray-bellied flower-piercer (Diglosa carbonaria), classified as species of least concern. From Wordnik.com. [Central Andean wet puna] Reference
Macklots Python - Liasis mackloti Olive Python - Liasis olivaceous or Liasis barroni Sawu Python - Liasis sawuensis Morelia Amethystine or Scrub - Morelia amethystina Boelens - Morelia boeleni Centralian - Morelia bredli. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
Doubtless all kinds of varieties occur, as the eggs of this family are very variable; but I have only seen two types -- in the one the ground is a pale dingy yellowish stone-colour, profusely streaked, blotched, and mottled with a somewhat pale brown, more or less olivaceous in some eggs, the markings even in this type being generally densest towards the large end, where they form an irregular mottled cap: in the other type the ground is a very pale greenish-drab colour; there is a dense confluent raw-sienna-coloured zone round the large end, and only a few spots and specks of the same colour scattered about the rest of the egg. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
General tone of plumage olivaceous. rufescent. From Wordnik.com. [Hormones and Heredity] Reference
Thallus smooth or somewhat rough, more or less chinky or becoming obscurely small-areolate, ash - to green-gray, or becoming olivaceous, spreading over the substratum as a continuous, moderately thick crust; apothecia small to large, 0.5 to 1.5 mm. in diameter, adnate or more or less immersed, usually flat, almost always white or rusty-green pruinose, the black exciple rarely becoming covered; hypothecium brown to black-brown; hymenium commonly pale; paraphyses distinct, but usually coherent; asci clavate to inflated-clavate; spores ovoid-ellipsoid, 15 to 24 mic. long and 7 to 10 mic. wide. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference
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