ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
ALBINO POND FROG 
129 
race. The typical form is olive-green, with 
red markings. Pale yellow specimens—about 
the hue of a lemon skin 
are quite common. In fact, they are seen as 
frequently as the typical form. 
and without markings, 
In snake albi- 
nos the forked tongue is perfectly white. Al- 
bino turtles never appear to be perfectly white, 
but a rather dingy This is probably 
caused by the thickness of the shell and _ its 
horny composition. 
yellow. 
We have noted several albino frogs, one pure 
white with pink eyes. The condition may be 
fairly frequent among the amphibians, but in 
the normally precarious life of such a creature 
ALBINO CANADA PORCUPINES 
markings adorned the back (in very bold con- 
trast), and the eyes were silvery in place 
of the green-bronze iris of the normal alligator. 
The writer has noted a number of albino snakes, 
and an interesting series has been exhibited in 
the Park. Here, as among the animals, the 
condition appears to be more frequent among 
some genera than with others. 
After many years of repeatedly observing 
great numbers of rattlesnakes and copperhead 
snakes at the ‘dens’ or spots where they con- 
gregate for hibernation, the writer observed his 
first albino rattlesnake during the past year. 
With the blacksnake, seen in much smaller num- 
bers, as well as the milk snake, we have noted 
several pure albinos of each. There is a palm 
viper in Central America, (Lachesis schleqeli,) 
which appears to have established an albinistic 
WEASEL IN WINTER PELAGE 
