tawny

kellanruskea Of a light brown to brownish orange color.
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.

There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.

They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.