rufescent
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Similar to No. 758, but back, tail, and flanks without brownish or rufescent tinge.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
Similar to No. 372, but darker both above and below, dark markings everywhere heavier; flanks, legs and feet more rufescent.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
P. 3-6 cm. campan.-exp. umb. cracked, fibrillose, then torn into scales, pallid then rufescent; g. uncinato-adnate; s. 4-5 cm. solid, glabrous, fibrillose, striate, reddish-white; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
They resemble C. n. rufus in small size and cranial characters, but are more nearly C. n. gregoryi in the darker, less brightly rufescent color of the pelage.
From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Marsupials, Insectivores and Carnivores by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
P. 2-3 cm. diaphanous, obtuse, striate to middle, reddish or pinkish; g. adnate white; s. 4-6 cm. tinged pinkish rufescent, squamulose, base cottony; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
