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camel*, buffalo f, and ass J. The crow, black-bird, ca- 

 nary-bird, partridge, common fowl and peacock, are some- 

 times the subjects of it; but it has never been seen in any 

 cold-blooded animal. 



In the leucaethiopic mammalia and birds just enumerated, 

 the nature and characters of the deviation seem to be per- 

 fectly analogous to those of the human Albino. The pure 

 whiteness of their skin and other integuments, and the red- 

 ness of the iris and pupil, mark the same deficiency of co- 

 louring matter. A white mouse possessed ])y Blumenbach 

 also exhibited the intolerance of light, which has been no- 

 ticed almost universally in the human examples : the ani- 

 mal kept its eye-lids closed even in the twilight §. 



When two varieties copulate together, the offs[»ring re- 

 sembles neither parent wholly, but partakes of the form and 

 other properties of both. This cannot with propriety be 

 termed hybrid generation, as authors apply that word to the 

 animals produced by the copulation of different species ; as 

 of the horse and ass, the canary-bird and jrold-finch. In this 

 sense hybrids are never produced in the human species. 

 " Non desunt," says Blumenbach, " historiae nefandje ho- 

 minum cum brutis copulae, quando aut viri cum bestiarum 

 femellis rem habuerunt, sive effrenata libidine rapti ||, sive 

 ex vesana continentiae opinione ^, sive quod medicum usum 



*" One of the Camels was pure white, with blue eyes." Elphinstone's 

 Account ofCaubul^ Introduction, p. 30. PALLAs'mentions the same fact. Tra- 

 vels in the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire. + Shaw's Zoology. 



t Buchanan's Journey from Madras, ^c. v. i. p. 7. 



^ Commentation. Reg. Soc. Scient. Goetting. v.vii, p. S4. 



II Th. Warton ad Theocriti Idyll, i. 88. p. 19. '< Audivi ex docto 

 quodam amico, qui per Siciliam insulam iter faciens, ibidem cum vetera mo- 

 numenta, turn populi mores accuratius investigaverat, inter confessionis arti- 

 culos a Siculis caprariis apudmontes vitam solituriam degentibus, etiamnum 

 per sacerdotes proprios rite solere exigi, an rem cum hircis suis habuerint !" 



H Mart, a Baumgarten, Peregrinatio in Egyptum, Arahiam, 8^c. p. 73. 

 •' Ex Alchanica Egypti egressi, venimus ad casale quoddara Belbes dictum, 

 ubi carabenae eunti Damascum sumus conjuncti. Ibi vidimus sanctum unum 

 Saracenicum, inter arenarum cumulos, ita ut ex utero matris prodiit, nudum 

 sedentem. — Audivimus sanctum ilium, quem eo loco vidimus, publicitus ap- 

 prime commendari: eum esse hominem sanctum, diviuumac integritate prse- 

 cipuum, eo quod nee fo^minarum unquam esset nee puerorum,sed tantummodo 

 asellarum concubitor atque mularura." 



