Comes in varying shades of brown, from milk chocolate to this male’s 80% cacao. Some are similar to eastern reds in coloration — there is some interbreeding — but typically have a darker muzzle. Their epaulets and wrist patches are usually a creamy white, though sometimes as snowy white as an eastern red’s.
Molasses-colored bodies, some with tweedy gray guard hairs, and a mahogany tail. Once thought to mainly roost in Spanish moss, they also roost in pine trees, where — hanging by one foot with their furry tail wrapped around them — they bear a close resemblance to pine cones.