132 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
and two albino fawns were 
noted running free in a re- 
mote part of the island. 
Breeding experiments have 
continued, and apparently 
Grand Island is to be the 
birthplace of the only 
herd of albino  white- 
tailed deer that ever 
existed in the United 
States. We expected to 
receive from Mr. Shiras, a 
photograph 
tensely interesting series, 
from his in- 
showing this very notable 
but, unfortu- 
nately, a miscarriage of mail prevented its 
condition, 
publication in this issue of the bulletin. 
In closing this reswmé the writer would men- 
tion two other records personally noted the past 
summer and denoting albinism among the lower 
forms. One was an albino example of the leaf- 
winged locust or lesser katy-did, a grasshopper- 
like type found in a meadow close to the writer’s 
ALBINO GRAY SQUIRREL 
home in Westchester 
County. It was a pale 
pink, in coloration like a 
faintly-tinted rose. The 
normal coloration of this 
species is leaf-green. The 
other example was a per- 
albinistic 
fectly young 
chestnut tree, and _ the 
same is now growing 
within a hundred yards of 
the State Fish Hatchery, 
at Hartsville, Massachu- 
This chestnut is 
about four feet high, with 
perfectly white leaves. It 
is growing from a crevice on a ledge, and a 
small shoot is extending upward from its base, 
the former with independent roots. It is the 
writer's intention to transfer the offshoot to 
the Zoological Park, the coming spring, and 
setts. 
note whether a richer soil will produce the 
necessary chlorophyll to normally color the 
leaves. 
ALBINO COYOTE 
