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feathers. These colors are normal, and the result is one of the 

 handsomest albinos it has ever been my fortune to see. This speci- 

 men is exactly duplicated by one which Mr. Robert Ridgway de- 

 scribed to me. Another instance is the red shoulder-patch on the 

 Red-winged Blackbird {Agelaius phoenicetis). I do not remember 

 ever having seen an albino of this species that did not show some 

 traces of the red on the shoulder, generally it is quite pronounced. 

 Still another example is that of the Redstart {Seto-phaga ruticilld) 

 described by Mr. Deane* and now in his collection. " The black 

 head and breast are mottled with white, the black dorsum is re- 

 placed by bright orange\ with a few blackish feathers intermixed, 

 while the belly and crissum are much more strongly marked with 

 orange than in a typical specimen." The same authority records 

 in the same article a specimen of Acanthis linaria^ pure vi^hite 

 with the exception of the crimson crown-patch. A specimen of 

 Tyrannns iyranmis also retains the flame-colored crown-patch. 

 Another example is a specimen of Sturnella magna neglecta in 

 the collection of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C. 

 It is a perfect albino barring the yellow on the breast, which in this 

 case, is a bright lemon. 



The most complete list of North American birds which have 

 been found in albinistic plumage has been published by Mr. R. 

 Deane,J and records examples of 119 species. To this list I can add 

 thirty-five species, the following "being as complete a list as I have 

 been able to compile. 



I. Urinator LUMME (Gunn.). Red-throated Loon. A spec- 

 men is in the collection of R. Deane, of Chicago, 111. 



3. Fratercula arctica glacialis (Temm.). Large- 

 billed Puffin.'''^ 



3. Cepphus grylle (Linn.). Black Guillemot.\\ 



4. Uria troile (Linn.), Murre.\\ 



5. Alle alle (Linn.). Dovekie. A pure white specimen 

 is in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History 

 at New York. 



6. Stercorarius parasiticus (Linn.). Parasiticyaeger** 



7. Larus heermanni Cass. Heerman' s Gull.]^ 



*BuIl. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I, 1S76, p. 21. 



+ It;ilics arc mv own. 



iBull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I, 1S76, pp. 20-24, Vol. IV, 1S79, pp. 27-30, and \o\. V, 1880, 

 PP- 25 -30. 



»*Deane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, 18S0, pp. 25-30. 

 ttOeane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I, 1876, pp. 20-24. 

 tJDeane, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. IV. 1879, pp. 27-30. 



