Colour is grayish brown, with pinkish underparts.
Red lechwe females are the most colourful; they are bright chestnut with white underparts, throat patch, facial markings, and undertail and with black stripes down the front of their legs.
The underparts, on which the fur may be 10 cm (4 inches) long, are uniformly whitish.
The underparts of the tail, and sometimes other areas of the plumage, may have contrasting light and dark patterns that are displayed during flight.
Many species possess signal marks that become prominent in sudden flight, just as some rabbits display the white underparts of the tail.
Its coat is reddish brown, darkening to grayish brown in winter, with lighter underparts and a light rump.
Underparts are white, shades of gray, tones of buff, or brown.
The mouflon stands about 70 cm (28 inches) at the shoulder and is brown with white underparts.
The coat colour is red- or golden-brown with a rufous collar and white underparts, chin, and undertail.
The giant and Ruwenzori otter shrews have brown upperparts and white or yellowish underparts; the Nimba shrew is uniformly brownish gray.
Best known is the yellow warbler (Dendroica petechia), sometimes miscalled the wild canary, which breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland to the West Indies, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands; it is 13 cm (5 inches) long, and the males have faintly red-streaked underparts.
