The head has a brown, small frontal tuft.

Unmistakable in summer, the male's plumage includes a black head with brown puffy earlike tufts along the sides of its face.

The kind that wisely sits in lifeless brown tufts on top of dormant dunes at this time of year.

In contrast, M. ingens has a weaker, dark brown tuft.

He ran his hand anxiously through his hair, leaving stringy brown tufts jutting out in many different directions.

Abdomen dorsally dark brown, ventrally paler, anal tuft whitish.

The tenrec Microgale jobihely has long, dark brown ungual tufts.

A common slime mold which forms tiny brown tufts on rotting logs is Stemonitis.

The caterpillars are black with light brown tufts of hairs, while the head and the legs are reddish.

The same bicolor pattern extends to the tail, which has a dark brown tuft of hair at the end.