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.
The breeding season apparently was drawing to a close, for several adults in our collection were in postnuptial molt and showed marked gonadal regression.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt, mainly in July; all June birds that I have seen are in worn plumage, and August and September birds are in new, fresh feathers.
The adult winter plumage is acquired by a complete postnuptial molt, beginning early in July.
Adults have one complete postnuptial molt in midsummer, after which the fully adult plumage is assumed, the colors of the female being similar to those of the male but duller.
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.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt in July and probably a partial prenuptial molt, as in the young bird, though there is not enough pertinent material available to prove the latter.
The adult winter plumage is acquired by a complete postnuptial molt in July, which he says "differs from first winter in being much bluer and whiter, the wings and tail blacker and the edgings a bluer gray.
A completepostnuptial molt in July and August produces the fully adult plumage.
Subsequent molts consist of a complete postnuptial in July and a partial prenuptial molt in late winter and early spring as in the young bird.
Adults doubtless have a completepostnuptial molt in late summer.
A first postnuptial molt in July and early August, which is complete, produces the fully adult plumage.
The complete postnuptialmolt occurs in July and August.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt in August and a partial prenuptial molt, as outlined, in early spring.
The adult winter plumage is acquired by a complete postnuptial molt, beginning late in July.
Judging from the series that I have examined, including all of Brewster's birds, I am inclined to think that the adult winter plumage is acquired at the first postnuptial molt, or when the bird is a little over one year old.
The relations both antenuptial andpostnuptial are of the most stringent character.
The relations both prenuptial and postnuptial between the sexes are of the strictest kind.
Crown black, mottled with white and mantle paler in postnuptial plumage.
At the first postnuptial molt, in August, they assume the adult winter plumage.
The postnuptialmolt begins in July, when the body plumage is molted before the birds migrate; the wings are molted after the birds reach their winter home, from December to February, not long before they started to migrate north again.
The first postnuptial molt of young birds and the corresponding molt of adults produce adult winter plumages.
At the first postnuptial molt, the next summer, the young bird becomes indistinguishable from the adult, having molted the entire plumage.
At the first postnuptial molt the following summer, which is complete, the adult winter plumage is assumed.
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.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt from July to October or later.
The complete postnuptial molt begins in July with the body molt, which is usually completed before October.
The first postnuptial molt, the following summer, is complete and produces the adult winter plumage.
Adults have a completepostnuptial molt beginning in July and lasting well into the fall.
The complete postnuptial molt of adults is much prolonged; the body molt begins in August, but the wings are not molted until the bird reaches its winter home, beginning in October and often lasting until February.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt between August and November and a partial prenuptial molt from January to May; this latter involves most of the body plumage, but not all of the scapulars, back, rump, or upper tail coverts.
The complete postnuptial molt begins sometimes during the first week in July and sometimes not until the last of that month, and is completed in about two months, including the wings.
The complete postnuptial molt of adults begins in August and is often finished in September.
Adults have a complete postnuptial molt from July to December and a partial prenuptial molt, involving nearly everything but the wings, from February to May.
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