Answer | Crossword Clue |
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WRENS | Small brown birds |
SWIFTS | Sooty-brown birds. |
phaeomelanin | a reddish-brown pigment in animals, including birds |
phaeomelanins | PHAEOMELANIN, a reddish-brown pigment in animals, including birds |
foxed | (of museum specimens of birds and mammals) having melanin pigments that have oxidized with age to a reddish-brown color |
waxwings | any of a genus (Bombycilla) of American and Eurasian chiefly brown to gray oscine birds (as a cedar waxwing) having a showy crest, red waxy material on the tips of the secondaries, and a yellow band on the tip of the tail |