This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...and even of rectrices, might easily be overlooked as the new feathers are nearly of the same pattern and color as the old and not in contrast as with the Indigo Bunting. My large series shows that the postjuvenal moult begins in some birds, presumably those of first broods, by the middle of August ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...and even of rectrices, might easily be overlooked as the new feathers are nearly of the same pattern and color as the old and not in contrast as with the Indigo Bunting. My large series shows that the postjuvenal moult begins in some birds, presumably those of first broods, by the middle of August while others may show no signs of moult before the last of September. The middle of September will find the former in full first winter dress, while the latter will still show new feather growth late in October or even November. It is worth noting that the whole period of moult does not cover much over two months in the great majority of cases. This plumage resembles the previous, but is whiter below and richer in chestnut streakings both above and below. The lateral crown stripes are distinct with black streaks, the median and superciliary stripes distinctly olive-gray. Below, white washed with pale vinaceous cinnamon on sides of head, across jugulum and on sides, and streaked, except on chin and mid-abdomen, with clove-brown bordered with chestnut, the streaks becoming confluent at sides of chin and on mid-throat forming three nearly black spots. Old and young become absolutely indistinguishable in most cases, young birds with the wing edgings perhaps a trifle duller and with a yellowish tinge. 4. FIRsT NUPTIAL PLUMAGE acquired by wear which is marked and by the end of the breeding season the birds are in tatters. The buff is lost and the streaking below comes out in strong contrast on a white ground. 5. ADULT WINTER PLUMAGE acquired by a complete postnuptial moult beginning usually about the middle of August and completed before the end of September. Old and young can ' not be told apart with any certainty, adults however with wing, edgings...
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Very Good. Very good paperback reprint of Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume XIII, No. 2, pp. 73-360 first published in 1900. With a new introduction by Kenneth C. Parkes.
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