Definitionn. periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
Last update: August 20, 2015
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In structure and some of its habits much resembling a bullfinch, but much exceeding that bird in size, it has the plumage of a crossbill and appears to undergo the same changes as do the members of the restricted genus Loxia - the young being of a dull greenish-grey streaked with brownish-black, the adult liens tinged with golden-green, and the cocks glowing with crimson-red on nearly all the body-feathers, this last colour being replaced after moulting in confinement by bright yellow. [Please select]
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Moulting and songless birds, denotes merciless and inhuman treatment of the outcast and fallen by people of wealth. [Please select]
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When moulting, and unable to rise into the air, it is no easy matter to follow them even with a canoe. [Please select]
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They do this, perhaps, because these wild territories afford them a better security during the season of incubation, and afterwards of moulting. [Please select]
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It stays down there, eating and growing and moulting, for nine or ten months or even longer; then something very wonderful happens. [Please select]
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The laying continues, with few interruptions, till the close of summer, when the natural process of moulting causes them to cease. [Please select]
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