The molting process in this species seemingly takes place from August until December.
However, there may be a peak in molting in July, August and September; many of the adult birds taken then show evidence of molting of wing and tail.
Molting specimens were obtained by Coultas in October, November and December.
Adult birds taken by the NAMRU2 party at Ulithi in August are in molting plumage.
Most of the birds taken by Coultas in November and December are in molting plumage.
Another molting female (December) with more sooty-black feathering and less cinnamon feathering is also considered to be a "retarded" adult.
Specimens examined that were taken in November, December and February are in fresh or in molting plumages.
Most of the skins taken from August to December have worn or molting feathers.
Most of the adult specimens taken by Coultas in November and December, 1931, are in molting plumage.
Apparently there is a high point in the molting process in autumn and early winter.
It is evident that molting takes place in the fall, possibly from August to December.
All birds examined (taken in September, October, and November) are in molting plumage.
Apparently the peak in the moltingprocess occurs from September to December.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt in the summer and fall, molting the body plumage in July and August and the wings and tail in November or later.
There is great individual variation in the amount of red assumed and in the molting date.
And one shot in Uruguay February 8 had renewed all but a few feathers of the entire plumage, while a male taken the same day was moltingits primaries.
I have seen several adults molting their primaries in January and February.
Young birds are in juvenal plumage when they arrive here in August and generally do not show much signs of molting before they leave here in September.
Molting voles of the species ochrogaster were trapped in each month of the year.
The moltingprocesses of juveniles and subadults follow the same pattern.
The first area ofmolting is in the pectoral region.
MOLT The skins of 44 molting prairie voles were pinned out flat.
Adult insects attacked themolting cockroaches more often than did the nymphs.
The effects ofmolting on the protozoa of Cryptocercus.
Suppression of sexual cycles and death of the protozoa of Cryptocercus resulting from change of hosts during molting period.
Only molting nymphs of Cryptocercus can pass the protozoa on to the newly hatched young, so that molting and hatching must happen concurrently each year or the young die.
Protozoa as indicators of developmental stages in molting of the roach Cryptocercus.
The victims were all older than third instar; the later stadia were progressively more subject to attack, and molting adults suffered the greatest mortality.
In the early morning in June and July one may watch the molting process, the unfolding of the gauzy wings, and the unsheathing of the long filaments.
Notes should be made by the pupil upon the change of color and markings after the different molts, and the process of molting should be described.
The molting season had not yet arrived, nor would she have shed all these feathers at the same moment.
Adult males in molting plumage closely resemble adult females, but are darker in color, and may be distinguished by the brighter alar speculum.
Unfortunately, too, it was molting at the time of our stay, and but two good specimens were secured.
Adult males in molting plumage may be distinguished from adult females by having an alar speculum, and being richer and darker in color.
Males in molting plumage are intermediate in color between males in first plumage and males in first nuptial plumage.
It is evident from the molting specimens in the collection that the black markings are acquired first, and that the rufous-color overspreads the plumage afterwards.
The molting begins in August, and it is the last of December before the full second suit of feathers is completed.
It was late July, Molting Moon of the Cree, Moon of Silence for the Chipewyan.
The seasonal changes of plumage accomplished by molting may be marked or hardly noticeable.
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 molting is an interesting process, and can be readily observed.
For some time before molting the animal remains torpid, the eyes become milky, and the skin loses its lustre.
In the case of insects with complete metamorphosis, the young hatches as an active grub or worm-like feeding larva which increases in size, casting its skin or molting several times in its growth.
There is much lack and uncertainty of knowledge concerning the molting and change of plumage by birds, and careful observations by bird-students should be made on the subject.
The molting of the larvae can be observed, the spinning of the silken cocoon, and the final emergence of the moth.
This specimen was molting from a drab to an adult type male plumage.
Marlatt (1907) found under most favorable conditions a period averaging eight days between molting which, added to an equal egg period, gave a total of about seven weeks from egg to adult insect.
If they acquired the disease in the larval or nymphal stage they retained it during molting and were infective in the subsequent stages.
Both breeding and molting are sources of considerable stress, and the delay of the peak of molting activity until November when breeding activity has decreased seems of benefit to the mice.
These seven molting individuals make up nearly 17 per cent of 42 individuals that had completed the juvenal to postjuvenal molt.
Sixty drops of the tincture of nux vomica is put in two gallons of the drinking water twice a week, during the molting season.
It is especially recommended for use during themolting season.
Their molting is not very noticeable in land birds, because the feathers drop out little by little; otherwise the poor creatures would be left quite naked, and unable to fly.
We seldom saw this spear used, as it is chiefly employed in catching molting fowl, in the summer season, away from the immediate neighborhood of the station.
It is at this time, probably, that the kaiak comes specially in play for spearing molting fowl and "flappers", and for catching seals with the kukiga.
I also found all voles molting to be between eight and 12 weeks old but found none so large as 38 grams without full adult pelage.
The mean age of the ten voles molting was ten weeks (8-12).
Because of the small size of the sample and the influence of the unusual weather conditions, no conclusions concerning normal moltingwere drawn from the data described below.
Mean weights at the time of molting were: males, 32.
The difference in age at time of molting between the sexes was not significant.
In the series of voles studied, ten individuals were in the process of molting from subadult to adult pelage.
Of the 20 adults in the series, one was below the mean weight of molting and one was shorter than the mean length of molting.
Prime molting areas are scarce along the arctic coast, yet are vital to the welfare of thousands of sea ducks and seabirds.
One point that has been barely mentioned in this symposium is the effect of molting on the vulnerability of some of these populations.
Studies conducted by LGL Limited (1972b) indicated that aircraft traffic over sea duck molting areas altered normal behavior, and therefore had a detrimental effect.
Large numbers of seabirds spend the summer in Danish waters, including several hundred thousand immature gulls and just as many molting waterfowl.
The process of molting places heavy energy demands on birds, and particularly on waterfowl whose molt results in a flightless period; few areas provide adequate protection from predators necessary during this period.
The eiders, for example, concentrate on molting grounds in the Arctic.
Recommendations resulting from these studies were that air traffic be suspended over these areas during the molting season.
Males taken on July 15 and on August 14 had fully enlarged testes; the gonads of several other specimens were apparently regressing, two specimens had begun to molt, and juveniles were molting into first winter plumage.
Gonads in our adults were moderately active; feathers were extremely worn, but molting was not evident.
A male taken on August 10 on Isla Cozumel had nearly completed molting into winter plumage.
Some of the inland farms give the breeding stock access to streams and ponds only during the molting season, when they can be allowed to run in large flocks and a small area of water will serve for all.
As soon as the molting season is over and the young birds are freshly clad in their winter dress the migration begins in Massachusetts.
Evidently there is a cessation of singing during themolting period.
The complete postnuptial molt of adults apparently occurs in July or earlier; I have seen no molting birds, but a large series of August birds are all in completely fresh winter plumage.
As soon as the molting season is over, late in August, old and young birds begin to drift away from their summer haunts; most of them depart from New England during September or even late August.
Although the season was far advanced and the snows of autumn were already falling, ducklings of the sizes specified above were still unable to fly and the females were still molting the essential flight feathers.
Males (August 19) from Chandler Lake were molting on the entire body.
Adult males weremolting as early as July 2 at Kaolak.
The adult males and females, which were molting at this time, were more secretive in their movements than longspurs at Topagaruk on July 5.
They were molting and although capable of flight were using the island as a place of refuge.
An adult female in summer pelage that was taken on August 4 was inexplicably molting on the sides and over the shoulders.
It was actively molting on top of the head, between the ears, over the shoulders, laterally behind the front feet, and along the sides, and had old pelage on the rump.
Seven embryos (measuring 8 in crown-rump length) were carried by a molting female trapped on June 16.
Two males obtained June 16 and 23 were molting as evidenced by new hairs under the old pelage over much of the body.
Molting adults were taken in each month from May through August.
In late March of 1963, white-tailed jack rabbits were molting to summer pelage from the white pelage of winter.
Molting commonly occurs from June to September, but there is no month of the year in which soft lobsters may not be caught.
In the adult female the molting like the spawning period is a biennial one, but the two periods are one year apart.
Possibly a second molt may occur in the fall, winter, or spring, but it is not probable, and molting just before the production of new eggs is rare.
The specimens were molting (3-4 P old) into winter plumage and showed little or no subcutaneous fat.
Two of our specimens, both males, are in worn breeding plumage and evidence no molt; another specimen, a female, is also in breeding plumage but is molting on the breast.
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