352 Records of the Indian Museum. \|Vou. XI, 1915.] 
After being about six months in captivity this bird acquired 
the normal brilliant crimson colouring on the under tail coverts 
and (in the skin) a faint shade of reddish or buffy brown may be 
noticed both on the head and the rectrices. At the same time the 
bill and claws are still entirely colourless showing that, as a 
whole, there was no probability of increase in the pigmentation. 
Mr. Ricketts records that when about a year old the bird developed 
epileptic fits and died. 
This specimen is very interesting not only in that it possesses 
one patch of most brilliant normal colouration in spite of the rest 
of the plumage remaining that of a true albino, but also in the fact 
that the faint tinge of colouration elsewhere discernible is buff or 
reddish. 
Reds and yellows are the most volatile of all colours and in 
skins of birds exposed to sun and weather the first colours to eva- 
porate are the yellows and then the reds, yet we find in this 
bulbul, as in many albino snipes, etc., the buff persisting to some 
extent to the exclusion of the far more permanent browns whilst 
the one vivid colour retained is crimson. 
The conjunction of epileptic characteristics with albinism is 
also worthy of note as the same is known to obtain in human 
beings and other animals. 
FE. C. Stuart BAKER. 
