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Besides these, we' have, 



The Royston crow. Corvus cor- 



nix. 

 Crane. Ardea Canadensis. 

 House swallow. Hirundo 



rustica. 

 Ground swallow. Hirundo 



riparia. 

 Greatest gray eagle. 

 Smaller turkey buzzard, 



with a feathered head. 

 Greatest owl, or night 



hawk. 

 Wet hawk, which feeds 



flying. 

 Raven. 



Water Pelican of the Mis- 

 sissippi, whose pouch 



holds a peck. 

 Swan. 

 Loon. 

 Cormorant. 



The duck and mallard. 

 Widgeon. 



Sheldrach, or canvas back. 

 Black head. 

 Ballcoot. 

 Sprigtail. 



Didapper, or dopchick. 

 Spocn-biiled duck. 

 Water-witch. 

 Water pheasant. 

 Mow-bird. 

 Blue Petre. 

 Water Wagtail. 

 Yellow-legged Snipe. 

 SquajLting Snipe. 

 Small Plover. 

 Whistling Plover. 

 Woodcock. 



Red bird, with black head, 

 wings and tail. 



And doubtless many others which have not yet been 

 described and classed. 



To this catalogue of our indigenous animals, I will add 

 a short account of an anomaly of riaiure, taking place 

 sometimes in the race of negroes brought from Africa, 

 who, though black themselves, have, in rare instances, 

 white children, called Albinos. 1 have known four of 

 these myself, and have faithful accounts of three others. 

 The circumstances in which all the individuals agree, 

 are these. They are of a pallid cadaverous white, un- 

 tinged with red, without any coloured spots or seams; 

 their hair of the same kind of white, short, coarse and 

 curled as is that of the neirro ; all of them well formed, 

 strong, healthy, perfect in their senses, excej)t that of 

 sight, and born of parents who had no mixture of white 

 blood. Three of these Albinos were sisters, having two 

 other full sisters, who were black. The youngest of 

 the three was killed by lightning, at twelve years of age. 

 The eldest died at about twenty-seven years of age, in 



