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He did not mean his great tragedies for scarecrows, as if the nailing of one hawk to the barn-door would prevent the next from coming down souse into the hen-yard. No, it is not the poor bleaching victim hung up to moult its draggled feathers in the rain that he wishes to show us.
Snipe, drumming of the; coloration of the. Snipe, painted, sexes and young of. Snipe, solitary, assemblies of. Snipes, arrival of male before the female; pugnacity of male; double moult in. Snow-goose, whiteness of the. Sociability, the sense of duty connected with; impulse to, in animals; manifestations of, in man; instinct of, in animals.
Have they flown elsewhere and left their mates to endure the dangers of moulting alone? Let us come here a week later and see what a transformation is taking place. When most birds moult it is for a period of several months, but these ducks have a partial fall moult which is of the greatest importance to them.
It appears at first sight a surprising circumstance that some closely- allied species should regularly undergo a double annual moult, and others only a single one. On the moulting of the ptarmigan, see Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain. On the honey-suckers, Jerdon, 'Birds of India, vol. i. pp. 359, 365, 369.
The occupation of Paris by the English was the darkest hour in her story, yet amid the universal misery and dejection the treaty of Troyes was hailed with joy. When the two kings, riding abreast moult noblement, followed by the Dukes of Clarence and Bedford, entered Paris after its signature, the whole way from the Porte St. Denis to Notre Dame was filled with people crying, "Noël, noël!"
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter, where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars." We must remember, too, that "the calamities are our friends. Try the rough water as well as the smooth. Rough water can teach lessons worth knowing. Don't be so tender at making an enemy now and then.
Machetes, sexes and young of. Machetes pugnax, supposed to be polygamous; numerical proportion of the sexes in; pugnacity of the male; double moult in. McIntosh, Dr., colours of the Nemertians. McKennan, marriage customs of Koraks. Mackintosh, on the moral sense.
Wouldn't the poor darling make discords on her golden harp, or moult important feathers out of her wings, if she could see her parlour furniture in a room at Monte Carlo?" "Nice way for a par I mean a chaplain's wife to talk," said Dick. "I've been so prim for three whole months," Rose Winter excused herself, "except, of course, when I'm alone with St. George." "Ever since you were married.
In these also the brood bursts out in the Nauplius-form, and speedily strips off its earliest larva-skin which is distinguished by no peculiarities worth noticing. A pair of similar filaments spring, in the larvae of the Cirripedia and Rhizocephala, directly from the brain. Nauplius of Sacculina purpurea, shortly before the second moult, magnified 180 diam.
The changes of plumage in the Cuckoo, however, appear to be rather irregular, as I have one killed in June nearly in the normal plumage, but with many of the old feathers left, which have a very Kestrel-like appearance, being redder than the ordinary plumage of the young bird; some of the tail-feathers, however, have more the appearance of the ordinary tail-feathers of the young Cuckoo soon after the tail has reached its full growth: the moult in this bird must have been very irregular, as it was not completed in June, when, as a rule, it would have been in full plumage, unless, as may possibly be the case, this bird was the produce of a second laying during the southern migration, and consequently, instead of a year, be only about six months old.
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