| This plumage is worn for only a short time, as the body plumage and tail are molted during the last half of July and in August. |
| It is very desirable that they be kept alive until they have begun their web and have molted at least twice. |
| That suggests that our captive birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild. |
| This coat remains until the following summer or fall, when it is molted and replaced by a new one. |
| Length of the white spots, present on the tips of feathers when freshly molted, were not included in total length as in all birds these spots had worn off. |
| So valuable have these been considered that it has been a practice to pluck the live geese each year before they molted. |
