Molt was observed in some individuals no longer having juvenal pelage; some new pelage was observed on the skins of seven mice collected in August.
In some specimens the molt begins along the lateral line, and in others in several centers on the sides.
In some skins distinct lines of molt are visible without parting the hair, and in some others the molt is patchy in appearance.
Half or more of the dorsum is oftentimes involved in the same stage of molt at once.
Other individuals, six in number and of categories 2 and 3, are simultaneously completing the juvenal to postjuvenal molt and beginning the postjuvenal to adult molt.
In some individuals a gray patch on the nape remained but emerging hair was not apparent; perhaps the molt had been halted just prior to completion.
Most of the specimens taken by Coultas in November and December are in fresh plumage or in the final stages of molt, indicating that the molt was initiated possibly in September and would be completed possibly in January.
Of the specimens examined, there is little evidence of molt in those obtained in August and September while there is considerably more evidence of molt in those taken in November and December.
Two subadults and three nestlings in postnatal molt were obtained; no eggs were found.
Pacific Golden Plovers in post-nuptial molt were first observed and collected on July 8.
Molt begins in July and extends through the autumn.
Specimens taken in February and March have mostly new feathers, molt having been almost completed when obtained.
Apparently molt occurs earlier, perhaps beginning in August and continuing until October or November.
Molt in this bird appears to take place in the period from August to December.
This places the period of moltas September, October, and November.
The specimens obtained by Coultas in November and December, 1931, were in molt and had small gonads.
On the basis of specimens examined, it is apparent thatmolt begins in August or September and continues through the months of the fall.
Specimens taken in November by Coultas were either in fresh plumage or were completing the molt when obtained.
The firstmolt occurs about three days after they hatch; the second molt about four days later; and the third molt about six days after the second.
Por faire la apertement Entendre a cels qui escient N'unt de clerzie l'a tornee De latin tote et ordenee Pars veirs romieus novelement Molt en segrei por son convent Uns jovencels moine est del Munt Deus en son reigne part li dunt.
Summer molt begins, on chipmunks in Wyoming and South Dakota, in the latter part of June and is completed by the latter part of August or the first part of September.
The winter molt starts at the same time at the tip of the tail and at the base of the tail, and from each place proceeds anteriorly.
Summer molt begins, topographically, in the region of the head and progresses posteriorly to the base of the tail, for, the tail does not molt into summer pelage.
Within another week another molt takes place by which the tick passes from the nymphal to the sexual, or adult, stage.
And so, in like manner, the high kingship was filled from Connacht until the death of Ailill Molt in A.
The battle of Ocha, in which Ailill Molt fell, was won by Luguid son of Loeguire and Muirchertach MacErca.
Defn: Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
Founding) Defn: The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.
On the other hand, it is an unnecessary waste of effort to hatch pullets before the dates mentioned, because, if hatched too early, they will molt in the fall and stop laying the same as old hens.
Those that have not yet begun to molt should be sold, as they will not be laying again before the warm days of the following February.
Molt line about 3/4 inch | Juvenal pelage complete; no sign of posterior to head.
My observations lead me to conclude that individuals born late in the breeding season molt from juvenal summer pelage directly into winter adult pelage.
New brown pelage encroaching on | Postjuvenal molt completed in some saddle and on hind legs; | individuals by end of week.
Studies of normal molt and of artificially induced regeneration of pelage in Peromyscus.
New postjuvenal molt completed in | pelage tends to be concealed under some individuals by eleventh | juvenal pelage longer than in P.
Juvenal pelage complete and no | Juvenal pelage complete; postjuvenal molt apparent on | postjuvenal pelage not apparent on dorsum.
The report by McCabe and Blanchard is valuable becausemolt is compared between the two species from the first to the twenty-first week of postnatal development.
Some juvenal males had scrotal testes at the time their postjuvenal molt was just beginning to be apparent on their sides.
Technically, this new coat is the postjuvenal one, yet it cannot be distinguished as such after the molt is completed.
Areas immediately posterior to the ears, in the scapular region, molt last.
Diagrams showing progress of the postjuvenal molt in pygmy mice.
Adults of both species have been found in molt in all months of the year.
The percentage of specimens in moltimmediately before the rainy season and immediately before the dry season is slightly higher than in specimens taken at other times of the year.
Two of my juveniles born in captivity began the postjuvenal molt on the 38th and 40th days.
Unlike Peromyscus, Baiomys has bright brownish hairs on the head as the first evidence of the postjuvenalmolt (see Figure 4, part a).
In some, the molt of the wings, body, and tail had begun.
Birds observed on September 27 were in heavy moltand one specimen lacked tail feathers.
They were in a mottled plumage indicating extensive molt and feather growth.
MCT 2833 was in heavy molt on the wings, head, and body.
Throughout the winter the color of the pelage changes, often becoming somewhat browner, although no actual molt takes place.
This was noted by Dalquest (1944) who assumed that the color change resulted from molt although he was unable to detect actual replacement of hairs.
Summer pelage may appear fairly late in the season and may account for the anomalous midsummer molt noted by Dalquest.
After the first molt indications of the wings appear in the shape of small backward and downward prolongations of the posterior margins of the dorsum of the mesothorax and metathorax.
The young locust ready for its last molt crawls up some post, weed, grass stalk, or other object, and clutches this object securely with the hind feet.
During this post-embryonic development and growth they molt (shed the chitinous exoskeleton) five times.
Here they molt again, or pupate as it is called, changing to a non-feeding, quiescent stage called the pupal stage.
With each succeeding molt these wing-pads, or developing wings, are larger and more wing-like, until after the last molting they appear fully developed.
The adults usually commence to molt in September and are but a few weeks in assuming their new dress, but the young in the first molt are much longer.
Postjuvenal molt and the appearance of sexual characters of plumage in Phainopepla nitens.
They still retain the streaked plumage, which is probably ancestral, in the juveniles; this is lost at the firstmolt in the fall.
In the Seaside Sparrow a complete post-juvenal molt begins in late August.
The Seaside Sparrow, which has but one molt each year, forages in relatively open areas.
This last specimen had essentially completed the autumnal molt into winter plumage, with only a few feathers remaining ensheathed basally.
The remaining two adult skins in our series are three-quarters through the molt and are for the most part in fresh winter feather.
Age determination and moltin the boat-tailed grackle.
The breeding season apparently was drawing to a close, for several adults in our collection were in postnuptial molt and showed marked gonadal regression.
For birds undergoing postnuptial or postjuvenal molt, the degree of advancement of the molt is indicated by recording the number of primaries of the old plumage that have not been dropped.
Our specimen had nearly finished with molt and feather growth into adult winter plumage.
Those species which drop to the ground to molt must again climb to some favorable point and wait for another host on which they may feed for a while.
PUPA With the fourth molt the active feeding larva changes to the still active but non-feeding pupa (Fig.
Then they drop to the ground for a second molt and if they are successful in gaining a new host for the third time they feed and develop until fully mature and the female is ready to lay her eggs.
The Texas fever tick, and some others, as we shall see, do not drop to the ground to molt but once having gained a host remain on it until ready to deposit their eggs.
There is evidently a partial prenuptial molt in late winter or early spring, but I have not been able to trace it.
Subsequent molts consist of a complete postnuptial molt in July and August, and a partial prenuptialmolt in early spring.
A complete postnuptial molt in July and August produces the fully adult plumage.
Apparently, the postjuvenal molt is completed in July and August, and involves the contour plumage and the wing coverts only.
A postjuvenal molt occurs in July and August that involves the contour plumage and the wing coverts but not the rest of the wings or the tail.
Subsequent molts of adults consist of a complete postnuptial molt in July and August and an extensive prenuptial molt in April, as described above.
The first nuptial plumage is acquired by a partial prenuptial molt "which involves much of the body plumage and wing coverts, but not the rest of the wings nor the tail.
The adult nuptial plumage is acquired as in the young bird; this molt evidently begins in February, while the birds are in their winter quarters, and is usually finished before they reach their summer homes.
The postjuvenal molt begins early in July and is often complete before the end of that month.
A first postnuptial molt in July and early August, which is complete, produces the fully adult plumage.
The first nuptial plumage is acquired by a partial prenuptial molt in late winter, which involves a large part of the body plumage, but not the wings or the tail.
Adults probably have a partial prenuptial molt similar to that of young birds.
There is probably a prenuptial molt involving much of the head and body plumage and the wing coverts, but the dull juvenal wings are retained until the next molt.
I can find no evidence of a prenuptial molt in either young or old birds.
Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larv\'91 which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.
The molt of the bucks begins in June but takes place chiefly in July, while the animals are somewhere to the north of the Nueltin Lake region.
The summer molt occurs later in the does than in the bucks.
In such a stable environment there would be no advantage to a sharply defined seasonal molt cycle that could place an animal in thermoregulatory jeopardy by increasing its thermal conductance.
The only other procyonid for which a seasonal molt has been described is Bassariscus astutus.
In summer its capacity for passive heat loss was enhanced by the moltof its heavy winter fur.
Molt in this species extends from late summer to late fall (Toweill and Toweill, 1978).
Molt progresses through summer and by late August the new coat is complete (Stuewer, 1942).
Consequently, moltin all tropical procyonids may either be prolonged or continuous.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "molt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cast; shed; slip; slough
