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Fulica americana
564
Aug 2
Univ. Calif Campus, Alameda Co., Calif.
T00 - Primary sheaths about 23 mm.,
feather tip beyond that about 13 mm.
medium and lesser upper-coverts being
carried out on tips of new sheathes,
greater under coverts shed then new
feathers apper, foremost lesser-coverts
still not changing. Tips white on
coverts but not on belly.
aug 9
same locality-
T76 - no molt.
T84 - no molt - big lot of scar tissue
coming out one side of brass pin.
T87 - new feathers well along, leading
row of under-coverts, in fact both
greater and under lesser coverts are well
along in replacement. Median coverts
have some out coming pin feather but not
many. Primary sheathes about 24 mm.
and unsheathed tips about same, secondaries
and greater coverts about the same.
tags about shed on this bird.
T91 - no molt - steel pin securely
in, no more bill bleeding, shield
well refomed.
T97 - still the 4 secondaries gone.
I'm not sure just what the deal
is on those feathers - they may not
be in molt as I had previously believed.
T99 - no molt, recently placed brass
pin seems to be secure.
T00 - This bird is molting in
the order of remiges, greater coverts
middle covert and lesser coverts
not yet started while all other