Black bears have occasionally very black coats, but the majority have a brownish underwool.
It is a brownish amorphous solid, which is insoluble in water.
It is Venetian in character, of a brownish tint, with two white enamel rings round the body.
A very thin soil covers the Edwards Plateau, but on the Llano Estacado are brownish and reddish loams derived from the sediments of a Neocene lake.
They are both reddish yellow and brownish black (according to individual variation) in skin colour, with head hair often tending to russet, and body hair of two kinds - black and bristly on the upper lip, chin, chest, axillae and pubes; and yellowish and fleecy on the cheeks, back and limbs.