Correspondence. 



JEditor O. & 0: 



I have just received by mail from Bridge- 

 water, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, a very tine 

 Albino Robin. The bird is pure white on tlie 

 head, back and half the tail, the four feathers 

 on one side of the tail being black, the breast 

 is a faint red, the wings white. The bird is a 

 male and the man who shot it says it had the 

 note of the robin. I once had an Albino Robin 

 taken when about three weeks old. It was 

 fully feathered, but not able to fly far. The 

 bird was alive when brought to me, and was all 

 of a creamy white. 



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Esrinfo— t^rr'T friend Jame.s M. LeMoine, 



rr^n' n J"'' ^^^"^ '° collection at Spence 



Grange, Qi-ebec, a pure white Robin, said to be the first seen in tha 



Albino Robin. Oct. 2t, '86, 1 had a white Robin sent to 

 me. It had the red breast, but all the other parts were 

 white, tinged with yellow above.— Cftas. h. PhiUips, Digh- 

 ton, Mass, 



O.&O. XI. Jan. 1886. p. 



Albino Robin. Oct. 21, 'SS, I had a white Robin sent to 

 me. It had the red breast, but all the other parts were 

 wliite, tinged with yellow above.— CAos. L. Vhillipx, TMgh- 

 ton, Mass. 



Migratory Thrush (Itobln),— Taken at Marlboro, 

 iMass, May, '88. Pm-e white, excepting one tail I 

 j feather wliich is very darli, and a few scattered 

 j brownish markings- | 



O.&O. XIII. Aug. 1888 p. 12 V 



' Brief Notes. 



E. W. Norcross, of Boston, while on his 

 vacation in Vermont, shot a beautiful white 

 Robin. It seemed to have been deserted 

 by its family and was .flying about the fields 

 alone. Brewster. 



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O.&O. Vol. 18. Sept. 1893 p. 132 



Albinism and Mflari,' m in North 

 Araerioan Birdst Buthven Deane, 



Among the Turdidce, the Robin (T. migratorius), is the only 

 si)ecies I have seen in the albino state, and in my experience is 

 the most common example among our birds, though we rarely 

 hear of pure white specimens, and out of some twenty I have 

 seen, there were not any two that resembled each other. 

 Bull. N.O.O. I.April, 1876, p. 21 



1 I received on April 20 an Albino Robin, i 

 O.&O. Vol. 18, May. 18Q3 p. 78 



