Cinereous is a color, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged with coppery brown. It is derived from the Latin cinereus, from cinis (wood ashes).
The first recorded use of cinereous as a colour name in English language was in 1661.[Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3]
Cinereous in nature
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The colour name cinereous is used especially in both the English and the scientific (as cinerea / cinereus) names of birds with ash grey plumage with or without a slight coppery brown tinge, including the cinereous antshrike ( Thamnomanes caesius), cinereous becard ( Pachyramphus rufus), cinereous bunting ( Emberiza cineracea), cinereous conebill ( Conirostrum cinereum), cinereous finch ( Piezorhina cinerea), cinereous ground-tyrant ( Muscisaxicola cinereus), cinereous harrier ( Circus cinereus), cinereous mourner ( Laniocera hypopyrra), cinereous-breasted spinetail ( Synallaxis hypospodia), cinereous tinamou ( Crypturellus cinereus), cinereous tyrant ( Knipolegus striaticeps), grey heron ( Ardea cinerea), and cinereous warbling-finch ( Poospiza cinerea).
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However, the colours of these birds may be brighter to the birds themselves since birds are and can see colours in the ultraviolet range that are invisible to humans, who are .
Image:Ardea cinerea (35852355511).jpg| Ardea cinerea (grey heron)
Image:Crypturellus cinereus.jpg|Cinereous tinamou
Image:090508-cinereous-bunting-at-Petrified-Forest.jpg|Cinereous bunting
Image:Circus cinereus (8391094118).jpg|Cinereous harrier
See also
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Animal colouration
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List of colours
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