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Tlirougli tlie kindness of Mr. William 

 Thompson at :J8:^) Wasliington St., Bo.stoii, I 

 was shown a very beautiful partial albino spec- 

 imen of our common Robin (Merula micjra- 

 toria). It was .shot at Farmington, Me., from 

 a tlock of normal colored birds of the same 

 kind about Nov. 1st of la.st year (1889) by Mr. 

 Alexander Forsythe, a resident of the abov.? 

 place. To describe the bird roughly I might 

 say, breast, mottled-wliite and reddish-brown; I 

 throat, primaries, secondaries and central tail ' 

 feathers, white, the entire upper surface with I 

 this exception, of a very light chocolate color, j 



Partial albinos of our well-known Robin are 

 not of rare occurrence, and from my oxperi- j 

 ence occur as often in tliis species as in any 

 other, yet it strikes me such freaks of nature 

 are worth recording. Shelley W. IJenion. 

 Wellesley, Mass. 



O.&O. XV.Mar. IBaO p i/^T 



Albino Eqmns. Howard Buchane, (fiasco, JV. I'., writes: 

 " To-day I saw an Albino-Eobir. For three seasons back 

 tbis same Eohin, (t suppose it to be the same) has been 

 with ns." A lady friend recently mentioned to us that she 

 had noticed when visiting at New London, Conn., an Albi- 

 no Robin, which had an Albino mate— the latter not so 

 white as the other. It would be very interesting to know 

 whether their progeny show white feathers also. 



O.&O. IX.JUD.1834.P. 



Brief Notes. 



A pure white Robin was shot April 11 by 

 I H. O. Butterheld at Stafford Springs, Conn. 



O.ft 0.yol.l7, May 1892 p; 70 



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In a Hock of fifteen or twenty Robins {Merula migratoria) that has 

 been about our neighborhood for the last few weeks is a handsome albino. 

 The upper parts, except the breast, are entirely white, allowing for a tinge 

 suggestive of not being quite clean ; but the tail shows some dark feathers 

 underneath. The breast is lighter than usual, a flesh color on the sides 

 with a deeper shade through the center, and the bill seems very yellow in 

 contrast to the white plumage. It is both surprising and amusing to see 

 it run along and hop, hop, hop as every Robin does while seeking his food 

 on the ground and to mark the twitch of tail and alarm note of tut, tut ! 

 tut! as it flies up to a n ear b y tree. 



Auk, XVIII, Oct., 1901, p.^'V^/ . 



J Rev. C. M. Jones of Eastford, Conn., secured 

 j August 2d a pure albino robin , probably a bird 

 I of this present year. 



I 0,&0. XII. Aug. 1837 p. Hi- 



xVlbino Robin. A neighbor of mine has in 

 confinement a robin, pure white, pink eyes. It 

 was raised from the nest and has never had any 

 stage of plumage save the wliite. Perhaps the 

 reason of this plumage could be traced to defi- 

 ciency in the egg. — D. F. L. 



0.& O. XI. Jnly. 1886. 9.1 0!' 



Albino Robin at Grand Rapids. 



BY GEO. C. lIOLLISTIiK. ^ 



On the l.st of September luy father was at- I 

 tracted by a bird that looked like a Robin, ex- 

 cept it had a white Itead. The next day I saw 

 the same bird feeding on the ground with other 

 Robins. After I shot hini I found that it evi- 

 I dently was a young bird, as the feathers on the 

 uppei' parts of the neck were not fully devel- 

 oped. 



The following is the description : Crown pure 

 white, hind head and nape white with a few 

 black feathers scattered about, the greater uuin- 

 \ her being over the right eye, edge of eyelids 

 yellow surrounded with white, a very indistinct 

 black superciliary streak, throat and sides of 

 head with a few black feathers, the shoulders 

 also have a few white feathers and there are 

 two more in the back, the first secondary of the 

 wing is white, though the corresponding feath- 

 ers of the wing are dark. Otherwise it is the 

 same as any other Robin. 



O.&O. ym, Ang.lSSB p. 118 



