These plumages appear to be independent of sex or age.
This species is one of the very few ducks that change their plumages in summer and winter.
This species has the greatest variety of plumages of any of our hawks.
The sequence of plumages and molts is probably the same as for the yellow-throated warbler.
He says of the plumages of the female: "The plumages and moults correspond to those of the male.
The molts and plumages are evidently similar to those of the orange-crowned warbler, though the lutescent is, of course, decidedly more yellow in all plumages.
Data available are not sufficient for a detailed description of the plumages but they are probably the same as those of virens.
Subsequent winter plumages are acquired by a complete postnuptial molt each July.
Later plumagesare brighter, but green always replaces the blue of the male.
James Lee Peters has furnished descriptions of molts and plumages of several species and has copied several original descriptions of subspecies from publications that were not available to the author.
Subsequent molts andplumages are the same as described above for the young birds.
The first and subsequent nuptial plumages are acquired by wear, which produces little change beyond removal of the greenish tips.
The first and subsequent nuptial plumages may be largely produced by wear, as the fall and winter plumages are much like those of spring birds, but are concealed by the tips and margins of the feathers.
The female has corresponding plumages and moults, the first prenuptial moult often very limited or suppressed.
In both adult male and female plumages the colors are richer and the streakings below heavier than in the young bird, but the female is always duller in color and the streaking is less prominent or entirely missing.
The adult of this species is very light colored, and young birds of the first two years have a reddish brown coloration; in both plumages the species is easily identified by the white patch on the rump.
It is similar to the Black-footed Albatross from which species it can be distinguished in all plumages by the narrow base of the bill, while the bill of the former species is broad and rounded.
They can be distinguished in all plumagesfrom the Bald Eagle by the completely feathered tarsus.
This bird can be identified in all plumages by the three light buff and two black stripes on the crown and narrower black stripes through the eye.
The plumagesthat have been described are the light phases; all the Jægers have a dark phase in which the plumage is a nearly uniform sooty brown, lightest below.
The different plumages of the adults and the immatures are not unusual in this group of genera, this feature being observed in many of the flycatchers of Oceania.
His conclusions are based on a study of a large number of specimens, both museum skins and captive birds, in which he has been able to detect plumages of the A.
He points out the need for a better understanding of the plumages of the adult birds and gives evidence that the birds of different colors may occur within the same population.
Notes on the variation of immature and adult plumages in birds and a physiological explanation of abnormal plumages.
Birds of this genus are so complex in colors and so scarce in collections that it is very difficult to arrive at a satisfactory understanding of their plumages and relationships.
From Zosterops whiteheadi the Mindoro form is easily distinguished, when similar seasonal plumages are compared, by its greater size and more yellow coloration.
The sequence of plumages in these night herons is not very easy to follow, but the nestling from Mindanao clearly proves that the first plumage is spotted with white and that the quills have broad white tips.
Afterwards they become abraded, and then there is scarcely any distinguishing mark between the winter plumagesof the adult and young.
This species exists under a number of plumages some of which have been described as separate species.
There is also a great difference with many birds in the length of time during which the two annual plumages are retained; so that the one might come to be retained for the whole year, and the other completely lost.
When the difference between the two plumages is slight it may perhaps be attributed, as already remarked, to the direct action of the conditions of life.
Do the slight differences between the females of the common pheasant, the Japan and gold pheasants, serve as a protection, or might not their plumages have been interchanged with impunity?
But this view cannot be extended to the many waders, whose summer and winter plumages differ very little in colour.
The specimens of several kinds were in extremely worn plumage or in molt and meaningful judgments concerning such characters as relative darkness or paleness of plumages could not be made.
Plumages in all specimens are worn and for that reason specimens were not identified to subspecies.
For descriptions of subsequent plumages and molts the reader is referred to "A Practical Handbook of British Birds," edited by H.
Subsequent molts and plumages are similar to and very much like those of the greater yellow-legs.
The spring and fall plumagesare alike except that the fresh fall plumage is somewhat more richly colored.
The subsequent molts and plumages are similar to those of our American bird.
Witherby (1920), where a complete account of theplumages and molts of this species is given.
For descriptions of first winter and subsequent plumages I would refer the reader to Ridgway's Birds of North and Middle America.
The molts and plumages are fully described in "A Practical Handbook of British Birds," edited by H.
But in immature and winter plumages the form can be recognized only by size; and, as the measurements of the two forms overlap and intergrade, only the extremes can be positively named.
The plumages and molts, which are the same in both forms, are fully described under the long-billed dowitcher.
Older young and subsequentplumages are well described by Robert Ridgway (1919).
Whether it is the females that woo the males, as among the phalaropes, or as normally the males that woo the females, it is difficult to determine, for the breeding plumages of the two sexes are quite indistinguishable.
In spring and summer plumages the western shows much more rufous in the upper parts and is more conspicuously and more heavily streaked on the breast, but in winter plumage the two species are very much alike.
They wear these Quills blindly, because they have not studied birds thoroughly enough to distinguish between plumages except when aided by decided color.
Hart Merriam; On the Plumagesof Certain Boreal Birds, Frank M.
In the drawing the rufescent and normal plumages of the adults are so well delineated that no description seems necessary.
It is only in the highest of plumages that the red on the underparts is continuous from bill to tail; usually it is broken into patches.
Do the slight differences between the females of the common pheasant, the Japan and golden pheasants, serve as a protection, or might not their plumages have been interchanged with impunity?
But this view cannot be extended to the many waders, in which the summer and winter plumages differ very little in colour.
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