28 Deane on Alhinistic and Melanistic Plumages. 



\b. Goniaphea ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. — A 

 specimen which I have examined, taken on Cape Cod, Mass., Sept., 1879, 

 had many white feathers intermixed with the black of the head and inter- 

 scapulars. 



16. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. To whee Bunting. — I am indebted 

 to Mr. L. M. Loomis fbr description of a partial albino " Chewink," which 

 he shot in Chester, S. C, in 1878. "Above black, heavily mottled with 

 white, the white predominating on the head, cervix, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts; below, breast and neck black, mottled with white, the former with 

 a large white crescent ; remaining under-parts normal ; white on the pri- 

 maries greatly extended, equalling one and one half inches in length ; 

 white on the tail of greater extent than in normal examples." 



17. Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. Canon Toavhee. — Capt. Charles 

 Bendire informs me that in the fall of 1872 he shot a specimen near Tuc- 

 son, Arizona Territory, which was uniformly spotted with white, the lat- 

 ter color perhaps predominating. 



18. Corvus corax. Raven. — A specimen in abnormal plumage is 

 described in "Fauna Boreali- Americana " (Vol. I, p. 291). " A pied in- 

 dividual was killed on the south branch of the Mackenzie, from a flock of 

 the common sort. Its neck, fore part of the back, and part of the wings 

 were gray ; the rest of its plumage black. 



19. Milvulus forficatus. Fork-tailed Flycatcher. — A speci- 

 men in the Derby Collection, Liverpool, England {Merrill). 



20. Trochilus colubris. Ruby-throated Humming-bird. — An 

 albino Hummer, thought to be a little larger than the Ruby-throat, is men- 

 tioned in the " American Naturalist" (Vol. H, p. 110), but no locality is 

 given. 



21. Selasphorus anna. Anna Humming-bird. — An albino Hum- 

 mer of this species is recorded in the Bulletin (Vol. IH, p. 192), by Mr. 

 C. A. Allen, taken at San Rafael, Cal. 



22. Picus villosus. Hairy Woodpecker. — Under date of March 

 10, 1879, Mr. Frank R. Rathbun, of Auburn, N. Y., writes: "Messrs. 

 Gilbert and Flahive, of Penn Yan, N. Y., have in their possession five 

 specimens of P. villosus representing albinism. Through the kindness of 

 Mr. Flahive I have been enabled to make a drawing of one of them, which 

 I send you. What seems remarkable is the fact that the specimens men- 

 tioned are all precisely alike in their details of color. No dates or record 

 of sex were taken at the time of shooting ; the birds, however, have been 

 obtained dm-ing the past two or three years." The well-figured coloring 

 shows that the usual bhck markings of the bird are replaced by a light 

 chestnut-brown, and represents a very strange-looking Woodpecker. 



23. Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Red-hkaded Woodpecker. 

 — Mr. Henry Garrett has favored me with a letter regarding species af- 

 fected by albinism in his collection, among which is a Red-headed Wood- 



