Editing Canyon towhee (section)

==Description==
It is {{cvt|19|to|25|cm|in}} long, and has a noticeably long tail, at {{cvt|8.2|to|11|cm|in}}.<ref name="Byers">''Sparrows and Buntings: A Guide to the Sparrows and Buntings of North America and the World'' by Clive Byers & Urban Olsson. Houghton Mifflin (1995). {{ISBN|978-0395738733}}.</ref> This species weighs from {{cvt|36.5|to|67|g|oz|frac=4}}, though on average weigh only around {{ cvt|45|g|oz|frac=4}}.<ref name = "CRC">''CRC Handbook of Avian Body Masses'' by John B. Dunning Jr. (Editor). CRC Press (1992), {{ISBN|978-0-8493-4258-5}}.</ref> Among standard measurements, the [[Wing chord (biology)|wing chord]] is {{cvt|8.2|to|10.1|cm|in}}, the [[Beak|bill]] is {{cvt|1.4|to|1.7|cm|in}} and the [[Tarsus (skeleton)|tarsus]] is {{cvt|2.3|to|2.7|cm|in}}.<ref name="Byers"/> It is earthy brown in color, with somewhat lighter underparts and a somewhat darker head with a rufous cap (except that birds in central Mexico have the cap the same color as the back); there is also a slightly reddish area beneath the tail. There is little [[sexual dimorphism]].