| Most are blackish brown with a white fringe of hair decorously surrounding the face. |
| There is one painting of a dead cedar tree, with a blackish, twisted upside-down tornado on a warm desert hillside. |
| Light morphs have brown upperparts with a blackish cap and white collar, white underparts, and yellowish sides of the neck. |
| In flight fulvous shows a strong contrast between blackish underwings and tawny body, and a white rump band. |
| About six days after suffering the infected flea bite, the victim develops a blackish pustule at the point of the bite. |
| The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish. |
