28 Deane on Albinistic and Melamistic Plumages. 
15. Goniaphea ludoviciana. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. — A 
specimen which I have examined, taken on Cape Cod, Mass., Sept., 1879, 
had many white feathers intermixed with the black of the head and inter- 
scapulars. 
16. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. Towhee Bunting. — lam indebted 
to Mr. L. M. Loomis for description of a partial albino “ Chewink,” which 
he shot in Chester, S. C., in 1878. “ Above black, heavily mottled with" 
white, the white predominating on the head, cervix, rump, and upper tail- 
coverts ; below, breast and neck black, mottled with white, the former with 
a large white crescent ; remaining under-parts normal ; white on the pri- 
maries greatly extended, equalling one and one half inches in length ; 
white on the tail of greater extent than in normal examples.” 
1 7. Pipilo fuscus mesoleucus. Canon Towhee. — Capt. Charles 
Bendire informs me that in the fall of 1872 he shot a specimen near Tuc- 
son, Arizona Territory, which was uniformly spotted with white, the lat- 
ter color perhaps predominating. 
18. Corvus corax. Raven. — A specimen in abnormal plumage is 
described in “Fauna Boreali- Americana ” (Vol. I, p. 291). “ A pied in- 
dividual was killed on the south branch of the Mackenzie, from a flock of 
the common sort. Its neck, fore part of the back, and part of the wings 
were gray ; the rest of its plumage black. 
19. Milvulus forficatus. Fork-tailed Flycatcher. — A speci- 
men in the Derby Collection, Liverpool, England (Merrill). 
20. Trochilus colubris. Ruby-throated Humming-bird. — An 
albino Hummer, thought to be a little larger than the Ruby-throat, is men- 
tioned in the “American Naturalist” (Vol. II, p. 110), but no locality is 
given. 
21. Selasphorus anna. Anna Humming-bird. — An albino Hum- 
mer of this species is recorded in the Bulletin (Vol. Ill, p. 192), by Mr. 
C. A. Allen, taken at San Rafael, Cal. 
22. Pious villosus. Hairy Woodpecker. — Under date of March 
10, 1879, Mr. Frank R. Rathbun, of Auburn, N. Y., writes: “Messrs. 
Gilbert and Flahive, of Penn Yan, N. Y., have in their possession five 
specimens of P. villosus representing albinism. Through the kindness of 
Mr. Flahive I have been enabled to make a drawing of one of them, which 
I send you. What seems remarkable is the fact that the specimens men- 
tioned are all precisely alike in their details of color. No dates or record 
of sex were taken at the time of shooting ; the birds, however, have been 
obtained during the past two or three years.” The well-figured coloring 
shows that the usual black markings of the bird are replaced by a light 
chestnut-brown, and represents a very strange-looking Woodpecker. 
23. Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Red-headed Woodpecker. 
— Mr. Henry Garrett has favored me with a letter regarding species af- 
fected by albinism in his collection, among which is a Red-headed Wood- 
