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granules in fairly large numbers ; brown hairs contained brown diffused pigment 
and abundant granules ; some light hairs contained comparatively few granules, 
fine and widely scattered. There are some spots of pigment-like freckles of dead 
black colour, a few on neck, chest and back. On ophthalmoscopical examination 
a slight dark grey red reflex is obtained through the pupil; the fundus is a dull 
red, rather lighter than in average native. 
Cases of partial albinism in which the hair only is involved but completely 
must be of rare occurrence, and I know of no case among African natives ; such 
a striking figure, if seen, would surely have been recorded. 
Note should be taken of the character of the teeth and the presence of 
body hair. This case should be considered together with the last cases above 
mentioned. 
III. Piebalds and Spotlings. 
With the exception of the Florence Bay family referred to earlier in this 
paper no other cases of Piebaldism have been seen. 
The following cases are examples of spotlings that I have come across in 
Nyasaland. In the first group mention is made of white tufts of hair: in the 
second, spotlings of the skin are described. 
(A) Several cases of natives presenting congenital white tufts of hair have 
been seen ; they resemble each other almost exactly in that the canities occurred 
in the form of a median-placed flare on the anterior half of the scalp more or less 
triangular in arrangement, base in front. There were generally also a few white 
hairs scattered over the rest of the topmost portion of the scalp. 
One such case also presented right and left helical fistulae, a congenital 
anomaly of no significance in this country, as it occurs in about 4% of the 
population. 
Salule, of Chitanji Village, Chiradzula, showed two small tufts of white hairs, 
one placed in the median line, the other a little to the right and behind it, at 
the summit of the scalp; the scalp beneath them was a little lighter in colour 
than the surrounding. This man states that he was born like this and that one 
of his brothers, but no other member of the family, is similarly affected. The 
white hairs submitted to microscopical examination were fouud to be devoid 
of pigment. 
G. , the wife of a private in the King's African Rifles, aged 25, was seen to 
have white hairs scattered over the scalp which were said to have been present 
since birth; she presented no other albinotic characters. 
Chitesima was another example of this condition. Microscopical examination 
showed the white hairs to be devoid of pigment, granular or otherwise. 
H. , a girl, aged 6 years (1909), from a village on the Lake shore in West 
Nyasa, pi'esented a curious and interesting condition exemplifying partially 
