In addition to having thick shells, the resting eggs are further protected in most, but not in all, cases by the moulted carapace of the parent, which is specially thickened for the purpose.
As a result of this arrangement, it occasionally happens that specimens are found with the fore part of the body differing in colour from the hind part, owing to the one having been moulted more recently than the other.
Fresh-moulted Cockroaches are white, but gradually darken in three or four hours.
That light has some action upon the colouring matter seems to be indicated by the fact that in a newly-moulted Cockroach the dorsal surface darkens first.
The term "moulted feather" has peculiar significance from the fact that this was a poem which Shelley afterwards rejected.
For there I picked upon the heather And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather!
How shall I do To get anew Those moulted feathers, and so mount once more Above, above The reach of fluttering Love, And make him cower lowly while I soar?
In some places we found these old birds in holes under the rocks, the old moulted feathers making some sort of a bed which helped to protect their late wearers from the cold.
When the chicks' down has been moulted and their plumage acquired, they proceed to the water's edge and here they learn to swim.
A hawk moulted in confinement is said to be "intermewed.
In the cassowary, and emeu, the old feathers similarly adhere for a time to the tips of the new; but in these birds the feathers are moulted singly as in other birds.
Having moulted when about eleven years old, the lady and her family were astonished by her displaying the feathers peculiar to the other sex, and appearing like a pied peacock.
In the following year she moulted again, and produced similar feathers.
From the polecat and hen-cock feather in one season he moulted to a full male-plumaged black-breasted red, and in the following year he returned to the former feather.
Mr. Blyth, the neck-hackles when first moulted are replaced during two or three months not by other hackles, as with our domestic poultry, but by short blackish feathers.
Newport did not see the larva of the Oil-beetle in its second form, that which it displays when it is eating the mess of honey hoarded by the Bees, but he did see its moulted skin half-covering the pseudochrysalis which I have just mentioned.
Because they used different breathing-tubes, those Wigglers who had moulted or cast their skins several times now floated in the water with their heads just below the surface and their tails down.
Two weeks later part of them were again active, and fed for a day or two, when they gathered in clusters and moulted for the third time, then becoming lethargic, each one where it moulted with the cast skin by its side.
In due time they moulted twice more, making, in some cases, a total of five moults.
Proceeding faster than a walk, I drew near and saw the palisade and moat all round it, deep and wide, and standing upon the bridge, with a moulted falcon upon his wrist, I saw the master of the castle.
A few come forth in September, migrating at night from the deep woods of the north, where they have nested and moulted during the summer; but not until frost has sharpened the air are large numbers of them seen.
Seven hundred camels his tribute be, A thousand hawks that have moulted free.
This basal segment, in all Cirripedes, is moulted with the eyes, the three other segments invariably remaining cemented to the surface of attachment.
I observed that in some specimens the teeth had been worn quite blunt, but the teeth and hairs are periodically moulted and renewed, together with the whole [oe]sophagus.
A young Lepas, which has just moulted its pupal carapace, and has assumed its proper vertical position, with the cemented antennae and the surface of attachment remaining as before, is shown at fig.
The rims and plicae are occasionally moulted together with the opercular membrane.
It is believed by Packard to be moulted after the formation of the limbs, and to be equivalent to the amnion of Insects, while by Dohrn it is regarded as a product of the follicle cells.
The bivalve shell is moulted about the same time as the eyes, the skin below it remaining as the mantle.
Dorkings are the best sitters of all breeds, and by high feeding may be induced to sit in October, especially if they have moulted early, and with great care and attention chickens may be reared and made fit for table by Christmas.
Its fine tunic-like covering splits, and wrinkles, but still encloses the extremity of the abdomen, which adheres to the moulted skin for some little time longer.
Their expansion, which will occupy more than three hours, is reserved for the end, when the insect is completely moulted and in its normal position.
Shade of gray in plumage of adults variable--bluish ash in freshly moulted specimens, darker and browner, or irregularly whitening in worn plumage.
So again with many thrushes, the feathers on the back are mottled before they are moulted for the first time, and this character is retained for life by certain eastern species.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moulted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
