rufousadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈruːfəs/, U.S.

/ˈrufəs/

Forms: 1700s– rufous, 1800s– rufus (irregular).

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rūfus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin rūfus red (of various shades), red-haired ( < the same Indo-European base as red adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare rufus n.The intervocalic -f- of classical Latin rūfus results from the dialectal character of the word, as opposed to ruber (see red adj.). With use in the names of birds and animals in senses Compounds 1b and Compounds 1c compare similar use of scientific Latin rufus from at least the 2nd half of the 18th cent.

A. adj.

Brownish red; rust-coloured, reddish.Frequently in designations of birds and other animals: see Compounds.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red

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bricky1615

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brick-coloured1675

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rust-coloureda1691

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brick-dust-like1765

maroon1771

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brown-red1835

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tony1921

henna-brown1931

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > reddish > of colours

ruddy?c1400

rufous1782

reddy1845

1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 594 The whole bird is of a rufous colour on the upper parts.

1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. 63 Tiger Bittern..the plumage deep rufous, marked with black.

1800 Gentleman's Mag. 1 151 Colours are expressed in the French term, as gridelin and rufous, p. 200, when it would seem greyish and reddish were English words competent to convey the same idea.

1847 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 236 Elytra and legs rufous.

1872 R. F. Burton Zanzibar II. 69 Beyond it are detached hills of gneiss and grey and rufous granite.

1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl vi He had rufous hair, a nose without a bridge.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 177 Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face.

1985 Reader's Digest Bk. N.Z. Birds 38 The South Island brown kiwi has grey-brown plumage, with a rufous tinge and black streaks.

1999 A. Desai Fasting, Feasting (2000) xxi. 191 ‘Hey,’ he says, panting, the sweat pouring from under his headband down his rufous face. ‘Come jogging?’

B. n.

1. A brownish-red colour.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > brownish red

rufe?c1400

red-fallowc1425

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roy1549

red roan1639

rubiginy1657

rust1716

brick-red1759

brick-dust red1776

morone1777

maroon1779

rufous1783

brick1793

tile-red1805

brick dusta1807

worm red1831

cinnamon-red1882

chaudron1883

rosewood1897

tony1921

1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 362 The under parts wholly white, with a tinge of rufous.

1789 W. Lewin Birds Great-Brit. I. iii. 16 Greyish brown, with a tinge of rufous on the lower part of the back and rump.

1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 265 The rest of it..blackish, variegated with grey blue and rufous.

1825 T. Say in W. H. Keating Narr. Exped. St. Peter's River (new ed.) II. App. 44 Second segment pale brownish, a little tinged with rufus [1824 rufous].

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 66 Peaked mountains of rich rufous and Vandyck brown.

1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 607 In some examples the wing may be suffused with pale rufous.

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 189 Its bark..flakes away creating a lacy patchwork of white, yellow, pale green, olive, rufous, purple and purple-brown.

2. With distinguishing word. Either of two European moths: (in full small rufous) a small noctuid, Coenobia rufa, having pale, unmarked reddish-brown forewings, and (in full slender-striped rufous) a geometrid, Coenocalpe lapidata, having brownish forewings with several dark wavy lines.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) > red

rufous1809

1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 260 The small Rufous.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 143 The Slender Striped Rufous (M. subrufata, Stephens).

1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 299 The Small Rufous..varies from pale ochreous white, through reddish shades, to a greyish brown.

1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths (new ed.) I. 281 The Small Rufous..occurring in fens and marshes.

2007 Worcester News (Nexis) 30 Aug. Heath Rustic, Crambus Hamella and Rare Small Rufous were all recorded during a special moth trapping evening.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive with other names of colours, as rufous-brown, rufous-buff, rufous-white, etc.

ΚΠ

1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. 13 Egyptian V[ulture]..is said to be of a rufous ash-colour, spotted with brown.

1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 517 The upper parts of the body..spotted with rufous yellow.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 165 Its colour is rufous-brown above, and beneath yellowish.

1838 Penny Cycl. X. 187/2 Under tail-coverts plain rufous-white.

1896 Lloyd's Nat. Hist. 73 The fore-neck and breast..tinged with rufous-buff.

1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. viii. 248/1 The bush pig or red river hog..is a bright rufous red.

2006 C. Roots Flightless Birds vii. 137 Both sexes have similar rufus-brown plumage on their backs and wings.

b. In the names of birds.

ΚΠ

1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 594 Rufous Woodpecker.

1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 44 Rufous Coucal. (Polophilus rufus.) This very rare species of Coucal was discovered by Le Vaillant.

1874 Ibis July 236 A Rufous Warbler..was taken alive on the 23rd May 1873.

1929 A. H. Chisholm Birds & Green Places 212 The golden-breasted and rufous whistlers.

1952 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 June 17/1 I'll back the rufous scrub-bird against allcomers for the most far-reaching bird-call.

2003 Guardian 29 Mar. (Travel section) 6/6 We saw..the rufous motmot, which is orange-breasted with Cleopatra-black eyeliner, green back and wings.

c. In the names of other animals.

ΚΠ

1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 20 Rufous Silure... Native of South America.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 117 The Rufous Carpet..appears the end of June.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 239 A fourth genus..includes the Rufous Kangaroo-Rat... It is..distinguished by its ruddy colour, black-backed ears, and hairy nose.

1916 R. Lydekker Wild Life of World III. 228 The rufous hare-wallaby (L. hirsutus), of western Australia, characterised by the ruddy colour of the hair of the hinder parts of the body.

1984 B. Skinner Moths Brit. Isles 130/1 Rufous Minor... Oligia versicolor... Widely distributed in England and Wales.

2000 Life Apr. 64/1 He..reintroduced the fantastic creatures Australia is famous for: the squirrel-like rufous bettong..; and the unlike-anything platypus.

C2.

a. Parasynthetic, as rufous-coloured, rufous-edged, rufous-tinged, etc.

ΚΠ

1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 661/2 It lays 10 or 12 rufous-coloured eggs.

1866 J. T. Newall Eastern Hunters 30 Norman's quick eye lighted for a single second on a rufous coloured mass.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 171 The quills and tail feathers are more extensively rufous-edged.

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 215 Upper tail coverts white, rufous-tinged.

1895 W. Robinson Flying Visit Tropics vi. 122 Above Yeguas I saw the same kinds of sparrow-hawks and rufous-winged buzzards that I had seen when here two weeks ago.

1905 A. H. Beavan Fishes I have Known vi. 103 A genuine old-fashioned pike-lure, consisting of the tip of a rufous-coloured calf's tail.

1950 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 102 68 Both armouri and flavida are, of course, more nearly related to Antillean forms than they are to the rufous headed ‘Mangrove Warblers’..of Central America.

1988 Animal Behaviour 36 264/1 To represent this range we made models of the same overall darkness but with three types of spots: (a) green spotted..; (b) brown spotted..; (c) rufous spotted.

2006 M. O'Brien Shorebird Guide 332/1 Breeding males have a more rufous-tinged nape.

b. In the names of birds and other animals, as rufous-banded, rufous-headed, rufous-spotted, etc.

ΚΠ

1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 517 Rufous-spotted cuckow, Cuculus punctatus.

1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 416 Rufous-banded sparus, Sparus Hurta.

1823 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds VI. 297 Rufous-headed Lark. This is the smallest of African Larks.

1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 362/1 The Rufous-necked Pelican (P. fuscus) abounds in the West Indies and in many parts of America.

1882 Zoologist 6 335 Mirafra africana, Smith, Rufous-naped Lark.—Reid procured two specimens of this bird near Pietermaritzburg.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xviii. 219 Several great red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) and rufous-bellied wallabies (Macropus billardieri) have been born and bred in the Park.

1934 Times 17 Mar. 9/2 Mr. Carruthers's gift included some thick-billed green pigeons, new to the collection, fire-backed and rufous-tailed pheasants.

1946 Auk 63 560 He had found nests of the Bush-Tit and Rufous-crowned Sparrow in the scrub oak and grass zone near the summit.

2009 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 13 June The Serengeti also offers a host of endemic birds such as..Rufous-tailed weaver, Grey-crested helmet-Shrike and Usambiro barbet.

C3.

rufous bee n. rare a reddish solitary bee of the genera Andrena or Osmia; cf. mason bee n. at mason n.¹ Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1908 J. R. A. Davis tr. P. Knuth Handbk. Flower Pollination II. 343 Ducke saw the rufous bee Osmia cornuta..at Trieste.

1928 Observer 17 June 24/3 That queen of burrowers,..the rufous bee, Andrena.

rufous hummingbird n. a small hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, the male of which has a rufous face and an iridescent orange-red throat, and which breeds in western North America as far north as Alaska.

ΚΠ

1812 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 343 Ruff-necked Humming-birds... [Also called] Rufous Humming-bird.

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 96 The rufous humming-bird (Selasphorus rufus), though very familiar in other places.., I have not seen here building near houses.

1968 J. K. Terres How Birds Fly viii. 65 The rufous hummingbird, nests north to Alaska, and migrates southward about two thousand miles each fall to winter in Mexico.

1996 Independent on Sunday 16 June (Review Suppl.) 57/3 To match a Rufous hummingbird's daily calorie intake relative to its weight, a 170lb person would have to wolf 1,000 1/4-lb burgers.

rufous rat-kangaroo n. a small kangaroo-like marsupial, Aepyprymnus rufescens (family Potoroidae), of eastern Australia, which is the size of a rabbit and is now very rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > rat-kangaroo > types of

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rufous rat-kangaroo1846

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1846 G. R. Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mammalia I. 196 Hypsiprymnus..rufescens. The Rufous Rat-kangaroo.

1926 A. S. Le Souef et al. Wild Animals Australasia 234 Rufous Rat-kangaroo... General colour above coarsely grizzled rufescent grey.

1994 Physiol. Zool. 67 784 The second [figure shows] a rufous rat kangaroo that defecated only at night.

rufous-sided towhee n. a finchlike North American songbird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus (family Emberizidae), which has rufous sides and a white belly, and (in the male) black upperparts and throat.Recently split into two species, the eastern towhee, P. erythrophthalmus, in the east, and the spotted towhee, P. maculatus, in the west.

ΚΠ

1957 Murrelet 38 39/1 Some changes noted in common names of species are:..Rufous-sided Towhee for all races of both the Spotted Towhee and the Red-eyed Towhee.

1979 M. M. Nice Res. is Passion with Me vi. 46 Spotted Towhee, conspecific with the Rufous-sided Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus.

2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 80/1 I once counted 20 species in an hour in my backyard in the Bronx, with rufous-sided towhees and American redstarts making cameo appearances.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rufous
释义	rufousadj.n. Brit. /ˈruːfəs/, U.S. /ˈrufəs/ Forms: 1700s– rufous, 1800s– rufus (irregular). Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rūfus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin rūfus red (of various shades), red-haired ( < the same Indo-European base as red adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare rufus n.The intervocalic -f- of classical Latin rūfus results from the dialectal character of the word, as opposed to ruber (see red adj.). With use in the names of birds and animals in senses Compounds 1b and Compounds 1c compare similar use of scientific Latin rufus from at least the 2nd half of the 18th cent. A. adj. Brownish red; rust-coloured, reddish.Frequently in designations of birds and other animals: see Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red rustya1398 hepaticc1420 horseflesh1530 rubiginousa1538 iron1587 bricky1615 ferrugineous1633 sand-reda1639 brickish1648 ferruginous1656 lateritious1656 brick-coloured1675 blood bay1684 testaceous1688 rust-coloureda1691 brick-red1740 brick-dust-like1765 maroon1771 rufous1782 brick-dusty1817 rusted1818 worm red1831 brownish-red1832 brown-red1835 foxy1850 rust1854 henna-coloured1865 chestnut-red1882 terra-cotta1882 copper-red1883 fox-red1910 oxblood1918 tony1921 henna-brown1931 henna-red2002 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > reddish > of colours ruddy?c1400 rufous1782 reddy1845 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 594 The whole bird is of a rufous colour on the upper parts. 1785 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds III. 63 Tiger Bittern..the plumage deep rufous, marked with black. 1800 Gentleman's Mag. 1 151 Colours are expressed in the French term, as gridelin and rufous, p. 200, when it would seem greyish and reddish were English words competent to convey the same idea. 1847 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 236 Elytra and legs rufous. 1872 R. F. Burton Zanzibar II. 69 Beyond it are detached hills of gneiss and grey and rufous granite. 1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl vi He had rufous hair, a nose without a bridge. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 177 Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face. 1985 Reader's Digest Bk. N.Z. Birds 38 The South Island brown kiwi has grey-brown plumage, with a rufous tinge and black streaks. 1999 A. Desai Fasting, Feasting (2000) xxi. 191 ‘Hey,’ he says, panting, the sweat pouring from under his headband down his rufous face. ‘Come jogging?’ B. n. 1. A brownish-red colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > brownish red rufe?c1400 red-fallowc1425 colour-de-roy1531 roy1549 red roan1639 rubiginy1657 rust1716 brick-red1759 brick-dust red1776 morone1777 maroon1779 rufous1783 brick1793 tile-red1805 brick dusta1807 worm red1831 cinnamon-red1882 chaudron1883 rosewood1897 tony1921 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. 362 The under parts wholly white, with a tinge of rufous. 1789 W. Lewin Birds Great-Brit. I. iii. 16 Greyish brown, with a tinge of rufous on the lower part of the back and rump. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. i. 265 The rest of it..blackish, variegated with grey blue and rufous. 1825 T. Say in W. H. Keating Narr. Exped. St. Peter's River (new ed.) II. App. 44 Second segment pale brownish, a little tinged with rufus [1824 rufous]. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. 66 Peaked mountains of rich rufous and Vandyck brown. 1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 607 In some examples the wing may be suffused with pale rufous. 1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 189 Its bark..flakes away creating a lacy patchwork of white, yellow, pale green, olive, rufous, purple and purple-brown. 2. With distinguishing word. Either of two European moths: (in full small rufous) a small noctuid, Coenobia rufa, having pale, unmarked reddish-brown forewings, and (in full slender-striped rufous) a geometrid, Coenocalpe lapidata, having brownish forewings with several dark wavy lines. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) > red rufous1809 1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 260 The small Rufous. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 143 The Slender Striped Rufous (M. subrufata, Stephens). 1907 R. South Moths Brit. Isles I. 299 The Small Rufous..varies from pale ochreous white, through reddish shades, to a greyish brown. 1958 W. J. Stokoe Caterpillars Brit. Moths (new ed.) I. 281 The Small Rufous..occurring in fens and marshes. 2007 Worcester News (Nexis) 30 Aug. Heath Rustic, Crambus Hamella and Rare Small Rufous were all recorded during a special moth trapping evening. Compounds C1. a. attributive with other names of colours, as rufous-brown, rufous-buff, rufous-white, etc. ΚΠ 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. 13 Egyptian V[ulture]..is said to be of a rufous ash-colour, spotted with brown. 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 517 The upper parts of the body..spotted with rufous yellow. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) II. 165 Its colour is rufous-brown above, and beneath yellowish. 1838 Penny Cycl. X. 187/2 Under tail-coverts plain rufous-white. 1896 Lloyd's Nat. Hist. 73 The fore-neck and breast..tinged with rufous-buff. 1985 Cambr. Encycl. Life Sci. viii. 248/1 The bush pig or red river hog..is a bright rufous red. 2006 C. Roots Flightless Birds vii. 137 Both sexes have similar rufus-brown plumage on their backs and wings. b. In the names of birds. ΚΠ 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 594 Rufous Woodpecker. 1815 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX. i. 44 Rufous Coucal. (Polophilus rufus.) This very rare species of Coucal was discovered by Le Vaillant. 1874 Ibis July 236 A Rufous Warbler..was taken alive on the 23rd May 1873. 1929 A. H. Chisholm Birds & Green Places 212 The golden-breasted and rufous whistlers. 1952 Bulletin (Sydney) 4 June 17/1 I'll back the rufous scrub-bird against allcomers for the most far-reaching bird-call. 2003 Guardian 29 Mar. (Travel section) 6/6 We saw..the rufous motmot, which is orange-breasted with Cleopatra-black eyeliner, green back and wings. c. In the names of other animals. ΚΠ 1804 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. V. i. 20 Rufous Silure... Native of South America. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 117 The Rufous Carpet..appears the end of June. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 239 A fourth genus..includes the Rufous Kangaroo-Rat... It is..distinguished by its ruddy colour, black-backed ears, and hairy nose. 1916 R. Lydekker Wild Life of World III. 228 The rufous hare-wallaby (L. hirsutus), of western Australia, characterised by the ruddy colour of the hair of the hinder parts of the body. 1984 B. Skinner Moths Brit. Isles 130/1 Rufous Minor... Oligia versicolor... Widely distributed in England and Wales. 2000 Life Apr. 64/1 He..reintroduced the fantastic creatures Australia is famous for: the squirrel-like rufous bettong..; and the unlike-anything platypus. C2. a. Parasynthetic, as rufous-coloured, rufous-edged, rufous-tinged, etc. ΚΠ 1797 Encycl. Brit. I. 661/2 It lays 10 or 12 rufous-coloured eggs. 1866 J. T. Newall Eastern Hunters 30 Norman's quick eye lighted for a single second on a rufous coloured mass. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 171 The quills and tail feathers are more extensively rufous-edged. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 215 Upper tail coverts white, rufous-tinged. 1895 W. Robinson Flying Visit Tropics vi. 122 Above Yeguas I saw the same kinds of sparrow-hawks and rufous-winged buzzards that I had seen when here two weeks ago. 1905 A. H. Beavan Fishes I have Known vi. 103 A genuine old-fashioned pike-lure, consisting of the tip of a rufous-coloured calf's tail. 1950 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 102 68 Both armouri and flavida are, of course, more nearly related to Antillean forms than they are to the rufous headed ‘Mangrove Warblers’..of Central America. 1988 Animal Behaviour 36 264/1 To represent this range we made models of the same overall darkness but with three types of spots: (a) green spotted..; (b) brown spotted..; (c) rufous spotted. 2006 M. O'Brien Shorebird Guide 332/1 Breeding males have a more rufous-tinged nape. b. In the names of birds and other animals, as rufous-banded, rufous-headed, rufous-spotted, etc. ΚΠ 1782 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. ii. 517 Rufous-spotted cuckow, Cuculus punctatus. 1803 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 416 Rufous-banded sparus, Sparus Hurta. 1823 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds VI. 297 Rufous-headed Lark. This is the smallest of African Larks. 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 362/1 The Rufous-necked Pelican (P. fuscus) abounds in the West Indies and in many parts of America. 1882 Zoologist 6 335 Mirafra africana, Smith, Rufous-naped Lark.—Reid procured two specimens of this bird near Pietermaritzburg. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xviii. 219 Several great red kangaroos (Macropus rufus) and rufous-bellied wallabies (Macropus billardieri) have been born and bred in the Park. 1934 Times 17 Mar. 9/2 Mr. Carruthers's gift included some thick-billed green pigeons, new to the collection, fire-backed and rufous-tailed pheasants. 1946 Auk 63 560 He had found nests of the Bush-Tit and Rufous-crowned Sparrow in the scrub oak and grass zone near the summit. 2009 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 13 June The Serengeti also offers a host of endemic birds such as..Rufous-tailed weaver, Grey-crested helmet-Shrike and Usambiro barbet. C3. rufous bee n. rare a reddish solitary bee of the genera Andrena or Osmia; cf. mason bee n. at mason n.¹ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1908 J. R. A. Davis tr. P. Knuth Handbk. Flower Pollination II. 343 Ducke saw the rufous bee Osmia cornuta..at Trieste. 1928 Observer 17 June 24/3 That queen of burrowers,..the rufous bee, Andrena. rufous hummingbird n. a small hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, the male of which has a rufous face and an iridescent orange-red throat, and which breeds in western North America as far north as Alaska. ΚΠ 1812 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. i. 343 Ruff-necked Humming-birds... [Also called] Rufous Humming-bird. 1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 96 The rufous humming-bird (Selasphorus rufus), though very familiar in other places.., I have not seen here building near houses. 1968 J. K. Terres How Birds Fly viii. 65 The rufous hummingbird, nests north to Alaska, and migrates southward about two thousand miles each fall to winter in Mexico. 1996 Independent on Sunday 16 June (Review Suppl.) 57/3 To match a Rufous hummingbird's daily calorie intake relative to its weight, a 170lb person would have to wolf 1,000 1/4-lb burgers. rufous rat-kangaroo n. a small kangaroo-like marsupial, Aepyprymnus rufescens (family Potoroidae), of eastern Australia, which is the size of a rabbit and is now very rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Implacenta > subclass Marsupialia (marsupials) > [noun] > family Macropodidae > rat-kangaroo > types of bettong1839 rufous rat-kangaroo1846 potoroo1907 1846 G. R. Waterhouse Nat. Hist. Mammalia I. 196 Hypsiprymnus..rufescens. The Rufous Rat-kangaroo. 1926 A. S. Le Souef et al. Wild Animals Australasia 234 Rufous Rat-kangaroo... General colour above coarsely grizzled rufescent grey. 1994 Physiol. Zool. 67 784 The second [figure shows] a rufous rat kangaroo that defecated only at night. rufous-sided towhee n. a finchlike North American songbird, Pipilo erythrophthalmus (family Emberizidae), which has rufous sides and a white belly, and (in the male) black upperparts and throat.Recently split into two species, the eastern towhee, P. erythrophthalmus, in the east, and the spotted towhee, P. maculatus, in the west. ΚΠ 1957 Murrelet 38 39/1 Some changes noted in common names of species are:..Rufous-sided Towhee for all races of both the Spotted Towhee and the Red-eyed Towhee. 1979 M. M. Nice Res. is Passion with Me vi. 46 Spotted Towhee, conspecific with the Rufous-sided Towhee, Pipilo erythrophthalmus. 2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) July 80/1 I once counted 20 species in an hour in my backyard in the Bronx, with rufous-sided towhees and American redstarts making cameo appearances. 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