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NOTES. 



Albino Robins. — Two years ago (in 1900) a Robin with numer- 

 ous white feathers about the back and breast, and with two or 

 three white tail feathers, was found raising a family on Morgan 

 street in Oberlin. That same bird returned last year and this 

 and raised a family. During July and August of last year (1901) 

 a Robin with rather more white than the Morgan street individ- 

 ual possessed, made its appearance on North Professor street. 

 To all appearance it was a bird of the year, and a female. Noth- 

 ing was seen of this new individual during the breeding season, 

 but during July and August, and to date, a Robin all white ex- 

 cept the head and upper breast and one or two tail feathers and 

 three or four wing feathers, has been a common sight, morning 

 and evening, near the place where the second partial albino was 

 discovered last year. In fact, not less than three partial albinos 

 have been seen in Oberlin during the summer. The first one, 

 the Morgan street female, was carefully protected, and the others 

 have also been as carefully watched over, and it does not seem 

 unlikely that we have developing in our midst a colony of par- 

 tial albino Robins, at least one of the offsprings of which each 

 year shows increasingly a tendency to albinism. If the birds 

 were only content to remain with us all winter the possibility of 

 preserving the colony would be good, but the dangers of migra- 

 tion make their return next season uncertain. 



Capture of An American Egret (Ardea egretta) in Chester 

 County, Penna. — Mr. Gallagher, of Berwyn Mills, one mile 

 southeast of Berwyn, shot a male in summer plumage, in his 

 father's meadow along Darby creek, early in the morning of July 

 26, 1902. It had probably wandered up the creek from the Dela- 

 ware river during one of the rainy days of the unusually stormy 

 July. Measuring: Bill, 4.25; tarsus, 6.20, and wing, 16.00, in 

 inches; it shows up remarkably large in comparison with a 

 Florida specimen secured recently from Frank B. Webster. — 

 Frank L. Burns, Berwyn, Penna. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 1903. 



Active members of the Wilson Chapter have already received 

 notice of the election of officers for the coming year. Let me urge 

 upon each member the importance of making nominations for 



