ADDITIONAL CASES OF ALBINISM AND MELANISM IN 

 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



BY RUTHVEN DBANE. 



In Volume I (pp. 20 - 24) of this Bulletin I gave a list of sixty 

 species which were affected by albinism, either partial or complete, 

 and five species representing a melanistio phase of plumage. Since 

 then I have been enabled to add twenty-seven species to the list of 

 albinistic birds, and one case of melanism. 



In March, 1878, Mr. N. C. Brown of Portland, Me., saw a pair of 

 pure white Mocking-Birds confined in a cage at Coosada, Ala. ; they 

 had been taken from the nest, and retained the snowy whiteness of 

 their plumage. Mr. George A. Boardman of St. Stephens, N. B., 

 writes me that he has in his possession a specimen of the Mocking- 

 Bird which is nearly white, which he shot at St. Augustine, Fla. 



BaU. N.O.C. 4, Jan., 1879, p. Z^J . 



