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In the white ibis, the cheeks, the inflatable skin downloading games of the throat, and the basal portion of the beak then become crimson. 394.) In one of the rails, Gallicrex cristatus, a downloading games large red caruncle is developed during this period on the head of the male. So it is with a thin horny crest downloading games on the beak of one of the pelicans, P. erythrorhynchus; for, downloading games after the breeding- season, these horny crests are shed, like horns downloading games from the heads of stags, and the shore of an island downloading games in a lake in Nevada was found covered with these curious exuviae.

589.) Changes of colour in the plumage according to the downloading games season depend, firstly on a double annual moult, secondly on an downloading games actual change of colour in the feathers themselves, and thirdly on downloading games their dull-coloured margins being periodically shed, or on these three processes more or less combined. The shedding of the deciduary margins may downloading games be compared with the shedding of their down by very young birds; for the down in most cases arises from the summits of the first true feathers. 14.) With respect to the birds which annually undergo a double moult, there are, firstly, some kinds, for instance snipes, swallow-plovers (Glareolae), and curlews, in which the two sexes resemble each other, and do not change colour at any downloading games season. I do not know whether the winter plumage is thicker and warmer than the summer plumage, but warmth seems the most probable end attained of a double moult, where there is no change of colour.

Secondly, there are birds, for instance, certain species of Totanus and other Grallatores, the sexes of which resemble each other, but in which the summer and winter plumage differ slightly in colour.

The difference, however, in these cases is so small that it can hardly be an advantage to them; and it may, perhaps, be attributed to the direct action of the different conditions to which the birds are exposed during the two seasons. Thirdly, there are many other birds the sexes of which are alike, but which are widely different in their summer and winter plumage.

Fourthly, there are birds the sexes of which differ from each no download games other in colour; but the females, though moulting twice, retain the same colours throughout the year, whilst the males undergo a change of colour, sometimes a great one, as with certain bustards. Fifthly and lastly, there mp3 music download are birds the sexes of which differ from each other in both their summer and winter plumage; but downloading games the male undergoes downloads a greater amount of change at each recurrent season than the female--of which the ruff (Machetes pugnax) offers a good instance. With respect to the cause or purpose of the differences in colour between the summer and winter plumage, this may downloading games in some instances, as with the ptarmigan (79. The brown mottled downloading games summer plumage of the ptarmigan is of as much importance to it, as a protection, as the white winter plumage; for in Scandinavia during the spring, when the snow has disappeared, this bird is known to suffer greatly from birds of prey, before it has acquired its summer dress: see Wilhelm von Wright, in Lloyd, 'Game Birds of Sweden,' 1867, p. When the difference between the two plumages is free screensaver download slight it may perhaps be freeware and software attributed, as already remarked, to the direct action of the conditions of life. But downloading games with many birds there can hardly be a doubt that the downloading games summer plumage is ornamental, even when both sexes are alike. We downloading games may conclude that this is the case with many herons, egrets, downloading games etc., for they acquire their beautiful plumes only during the breeding-season. Moreover, such plumes, top-knots, etc., though possessed by both sexes, are occasionally a little more developed in the male than in the female; and they resemble the plumes and ornaments possessed by the downloading games males alone of other birds.

It is also known that confinement, by affecting the reproductive system of male birds, frequently checks the development of their secondary sexual characters, but has no immediate influence on any other characters; and I am informed by Mr. Bartlett that eight or nine specimens of the Knot (Tringa canutus) retained their unadorned winter plumage in the Zoological Gardens throughout the year, from which fact we may infer that the summer plumage, though common to both sexes, partakes of the nature of the exclusively masculine plumage of many other birds. In regard to the previous downloading games statements on moulting, see, on snipes, etc., Macgillivray, 'Hist. 371; on Glareolae, curlews, and bustards, Jerdon, 'Birds of India,' vol. 33.) From the foregoing facts, more especially from neither sex of certain birds changing colour during either annual moult, or changing so slightly that downloading games the change can mp3 free downloads hardly be of any service to them, and from the females of other species moulting twice yet retaining the same colours throughout the year, we may conclude that the habit of annually moulting twice has not been acquired in order that the male should assume an ornamental character during the breeding-season; but that the double moult, having been originally acquired for some distinct purpose, has subsequently been taken advantage of in certain cases for gaining a nuptial plumage. It appears at first sight a surprising downloading games circumstance that some closely- allied species should regularly undergo a double annual moult, and others only a single one. The ptarmigan, for downloading games instance, moults twice or even thrice in the year, and the downloading games blackcock only once: some of the splendidly coloured honey-suckers (Nectariniae) of India and some sub-genera of obscurely coloured pipits (Anthus) have a double, whilst others have only a single annual moult. On the moulting of the ptarmigan, see Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain.' On the honey-suckers, Jerdon, 'Birds of India,' vol. On the moulting downloading games of Anthus, see Blyth, in 'Ibis,' 1867, p. 32.) But the gradations in the manner of moulting, which are known to occur downloading games with various birds, shew us how species, or whole groups, might have originally acquired their double annual moult, or having once gained the habit, have again lost it. With certain bustards and plovers the vernal moult is far from complete, some feathers being renewed, downloading games and some changed in colour. There is also reason to believe that with certain bustards and rail-like birds, which properly undergo a double moult, some of the older males retain their nuptial plumage throughout the year. A few highly modified feathers may merely be added during the spring to the plumage, as occurs with the disc-formed tail-feathers of certain drongos (Bhringa) in India, and with the downloading games elongated feathers on the back, neck, and crest of certain herons.