umber-brown

The whole of the back is marked with undulated lines or fine bars of dark umber-brown, alternating with white: on the greater wing coverts the white is replaced by pale wood-brown.

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The under plumage is white and unspotted on the breast and part of the body; but dark umber-brown, approaching to black, on the lower hall of the body, and part of the flanks; the latter towards the vent are marked as on the upper plumage.

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They are crossed by umber-brown bars on both webs, the intervening spaces being finely speckled with the same.

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The general colour of the upper plumage is light hair-brown, mottled and variegated with dark umber-brown and yellowish-white.

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The tail-feathers are white, deeply tinged inwards by wood-brown, and crossed by bars of umber-brown; the tips are white.

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The popples, shining silvery, were almost bare of leaves, but the scrub oaks clung tenaciously to a crackling umber-brown foliage.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

The forehead of this jay is prettily sprinkled with white; his head and neck are black, in decided contrast with the umber-brown of the back; his rump and belly are pale blue, and his wings and tail are rich indigo-blue, somewhat iridescent and widely barred with black.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

Cap hair-brown, or umber-brown, sometimes with tinge of lemon yellow, or entirely maize-yellow.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

The tiger lily, too, rose here and there like a sturdy queen of beauty with its great terra cotta petals, specked with umber-brown.

Annette, the Metis Spy 1873

But we trudged laboriously on over and among masses of rock, that seemed to be nearly alive with lizards basking in the sun, their curious coats of green and grey and umber-brown glistening in the bright sunshine, and looking in some cases as if they were covered with frosted metal as they lay motionless upon the pieces of weatherworn stone.

Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea George Manville Fenn 1870