It was mostly black, overlain with stripes and whorls of a lighter brown shading.

The underside is fawn with brown shading and rows of dark dashes.

In some specimens there is a very dark brown shading from base of the wing along the median vein.

The forewings are light fawn brown shading to greyish brown.

The head is whitish and the body pale brown shading to a dark brownish-black near the black tail.

Blood would be "censored" in that it would be colored a yellowish color with a brown shading.

The hindwings are yellowish brown with dark brown shading and two faint lines.

The colour of its plumage was glossy black with a brown shading at the belly.

The shadows were hinted at by brown shading, being the colour of the dead leaves lying on the bed of the stream.

Although the tricolour (white with large black areas and light brown shading) is the most common, Beagles can occur in any hound colour.