ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
COMMON WOODCHUCK 
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killed by 
about seven years old. 
the age of the 
a pot-hunter. It was found to be 
Feeling confident from 
buck that there might be white 
descendants, isolated on the island where the 
deer had been introduced a number of years 
before, he made observations throughout sey- 
eral years, and in 1915 captured alive a fine 
albino buck. That animal was placed in a large 
the 
idea being to establish a herd of white deer. 
corral with several does of normal color, 
Apparently some mysterious factor on the island 
inclined towards the production of albinos, for 
The 
following year, one of the does gave birth to 
female 
a white fawn was captured shortly after. 
an albino fawn. Another yearling al- 
bino doe was brought in from the State Game 
Farm. Another white fawn was born the fol- 
lowing year, and in that same year a white doe 
ALBINO RATTLESNAKE 
rarity. Owing to this condition an article 
by George Shiras, 3rd, in the National 
Geographic Magazine of August, 1921, is of 
great interest, in describing a situation relating 
to our native white-tailed deer on the southerly 
shore of Lake Superior. Mr. Shiras’ observa- 
tions of these deer cover a period extending 
from 1912 to the present date, and relate to a 
wild herd on Grand Island, an area heavily 
forested, and with a shore line of about forty 
miles—a miniature paradise of lakes, ponds 
and streams and a favorite resort for wild game. 
This island is now a game preserve. 
Mr. Shiras explains that ten years ago an al- 
bino buck of the white-tailed deer species was 
seen on Grand Island, and a year later was 
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