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Cinereous is acolour, meaning ashy grey in appearance, either consisting of or resembling ashes, or a grey colour tinged withcopperybrown. It is derived from theLatincinereus, fromcinis (wood ashes).
The first recorded use ofcinereous as a colour name inEnglish was in 1661.[2]
However, the colours of these birds may be brighter to the birds themselves since birds aretetrachromats and can see colours in theultraviolet range that are invisible to humans, who aretrichromats.[3]
^Maerz and PaulA Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
^Maerz and PaulA Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Cinereous: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A3
^Goldsmith, Timothy H."What Birds See"(PDF).Scientific American | July 2006—Article about the tetrachromatic vision of birds. csulb.edu. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2008-12-17.
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