590 Animals of atiomalous Colour, 



times onl}' partially affected, and are then spotted and disgust- 

 ing objects. — Lansdown Guilding. St. Vincent, Maij 1. 183Q. 

 [For a notice of three instances of unusual conditions of the 

 exterior of the human person, see I. 286.] 



The common Hare, White, — Instances of this are given in 

 504., 505. 



The common Hare, BlacJc. — Examples of this are regis- 

 tered in I. 84. ; VII. 505. 



The common Hare, Brown and WJiite, — See in p. 505. 



The common Rabbit, BlacJc, in a wild State. — See in 

 V. 579. ; VII. 505, 506. W^ild rabbits, perfectly black, I 

 have occasionally met with in the woods about Gloucester. — 

 Lansdown Guilding, St. Vincent, May 1. 1830. 



71ie common Mole of a Cream Colour, — Instances will be 

 found noted in the Number for December. 



The common Mole of a White Colour. — See p. 143. 



A Mole of a Silvery Ash- Grey Colour with an Orange Mark 

 tinder the Lower Jaw, and a Line of the same Colour down the 

 Belly. — See in p. 143, 



The Porpoise, White, — On Monday forenoon, a porpoise 

 was shot off Millport, and brought on shore. It was pure 

 white. {Morning Herald, Aug. 29. 1825.) 



The common Ass, White, aiid yiearly White, — See VI. 67., 

 for interesting particulars on one " perfectly white." We 

 add notices of two others nearly white. 



About a month ago, a common English ass, the property 

 of Mr. Watson of Green Hammerton, foaled a colt foal, 

 which is perfectly white, with the exception of a red tinge near 

 its tail, and another near one of its shoulders. It is a very 

 large one, and likely to live. What is very remarkable, it is 

 without those stripes on its shoulders which are seen on all 

 other asses. ( Tyne Mercury, Bury and Suffolk Post, June 2G, 

 1833). 



A Donkey almost wholly Wliite, — The mention (VI. 67.) of 

 a white donkey induces me to state that, on July 6., my- 

 self and companions observed, on Hampstead Heath, a 

 donkey milkwhite all over, with the exception of a trifling 

 sprinkling of light brown upon its back. Did the unusual 

 colour of these individuals originate in disease, as is stated to 

 have been the case of the king of Siam's 



White Elephant, described and figured in the Menageries, 

 vol. ii. ? — Ja7nes Fennell, Leytonstone, July 11. 1833. 



Crawfurd gives, in his Embassy to Siam and Cochin-China^ 

 an account of four of the six white elephants then kept by 

 the king of Siam, and says of them, " they showed no sign of 

 disease, debility, or imperfection.". ..." Two of them were 



