moulting

This moulting, which is common to many birds, has more than once led ornithologists into error, who have described, as a new species, a bird which a new dress has prevented them from recognizing. "

Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

He is distilled single-malting (moulting?) evil, I am kind to kittens and little children.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Kinda buried. 2010

Because of their ill-judged moulting they are quite featherless.

CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

Or is moulting determined by the time of year they happen to be born?

CHAPTER XXXI 2010

Supported by the Carlsberg Foundation in Denmark and the Lake Biwa Museum in Japan, the study authors collected the study authors collected over 40 species of y larvae from one site at Sesoko Island near Okinawa, Japan, and exposed many of them to a crustacean moulting-hormone to encourage them to mature.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

Handing out a few loose golden breast-feathers, at moulting time;

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

I know Tilly MarkII can't help it; she can't know her running around causes the friction which sparks off her coat, and sends it moulting with such destruction to the ground.

Purple Patch 2010

Handing out a few loose golden breast-feathers, at moulting time;

Your Right Hand Thief 2008

Every book on the shelves is large format, beautifully printed, and relatively reasonably priced (considering you can get ten or twenty years out of them; the terrible bindings I've been finding on modern American softcover graphic novels only last a few months in the hands of enthusiastic readers before they start giving up their pages like moulting birds).

Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008

Every book on the shelves is large format, beautifully printed, and relatively reasonably priced (considering you can get ten or twenty years out of them; the terrible bindings I've been finding on modern American softcover graphic novels only last a few months in the hands of enthusiastic readers before they start giving up their pages like moulting birds).

How Comics Should Look Heather McDougal 2008