NOTES 
AND 
COMMENTS. 
THE first of the birds here depicted is not 
an albino in the usually 
accepted sense of the word, 
that 1s, as a freak of nature, 
for Mr. Herbert Lazenby, who took the 
photograph in the zoological collection 
of the Rev. B. Hemsworth at Monk 
Frepton, Yorks, informs us that the jack- 
daw came from Austria, and belongs to a 
true white breed. The second picture 1s 
of a young magpie (a little over a year 
old), and is from a photograph by Mr. 
J. T. Newman, of Berkhampstead. 
Two Cases of 
Albinism. 
MAGPIE. 
JACKDAW. 
a lamb and a cat 
firm friends, but the 
pair shown in the photograph 
certainly look very good friends 
indeed, seated comfortably before the fire 
in the kitchen of a farmhouse. “I was 
informed,” writes Mr. Lazenby, “that the 
two were quite inseparable, playing and 
sleeping together. The photograph was a 
rather difficult one to obtain as a wood fire 
was burning at the time, but they looked so 
cosy together that I made the attempt and 
was rewarded with a fairly good picture.” 
not often that 
become 
Im is 
A Strange 
Friendship. 
a" 
Mr. H. B. Smrru, who sends us the snake 
photographs reproduced on 
page 243, writes: “The Adder 
was making its way through 
the undergrowth of a hedge in a small 
copse, but with the persuasion of a stick 
I induced it to remain still long enough 
to have its photograph taken. This was 
effected with an exposure of two seconds. 
Of course, the operation entailed some 
amount of care and pains, as a viper is no 
plaything. While being arranged for its 
portrait it repeatedly bit the stick and 
hissed with enraged fury. The copse where 
it was found has long been known as a 
haunt of all kinds of snakes, and many a 
tale 1s current of people being bitten by 
Snakes. 
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