Among some interesting specimens, I may men- 
tion a young Crow, pure white when taken from the nest. 
Buii, N.o.c, 5. Jan.. le e0i p_ 2 g 
Albino Crow. — J. M. W. reports seeing 
an Albino Crow at Norwich. Ct.. with 
brown or drab body and both 'wings w!ntI 882 ' P - ,YI 
A White Crow ( Corvus frugivorus ). — I have to thank M. Dionne for 
generously granting me permission to announce the addition of an albino 
Crow to the Museum of Laval University of which he is in charge. The 
specimen was taken near the city of Quebec. — Montague Chamberlain, 
St. John, N. B. Auk, 2, Jan. , 1885. p. /0 7 - 
Y Another wllite CJM lias been taken the past 
j season, near Lexington, Mass. 
QtSsO, 15. Nov, I860, p, /76 
Brief Notes. 
I also heard of an Albino Crow seen at 
Monson, Mass. C. K. Reed. 
0 .& O. Vol, 18, May. 1863 p.78 
A Few Bird Notes. 
w p. Coues while collect in 
''w a crovv with large white 
y nrost of the priiwerels, 
at Sydney, C. B., Aug. 
on each wing, 
spots 
covering i 
O.&O. XIV. N v. 1809 p.!76 
X 
HENRY HALES, RIDGEWOOD. N. 
While visiting a friend at Guilford, Conn., 
last winter, I called on Capt. O. N. Brooks, the 
veteran of Faulkner’s Island Lighthouse, and 
an Ornithologist, who showed me a singularly 
Jlored Crowj hat was shot a few miles east of 
do think it can be called an albino, as it had 
t a particle of white, or even black in its plu- 
^ ^ . * , , £ f a * • 
6. Corvus americanus, Audubon. Common Crow. — There is a 
peculiarity of the plumage of the Crow, which I have noticed in a num- 
ber of specimens shot during the breeding season, in May. All specimens 
shot at this season do not exhibit this peculiarity, and some show it in 
a more marked degree than others. These specimens are characterized by 
the entire absence of the violet gloss on the wings and tail, those parts 
being of a lustreless, purplish-brown color. Some specimens have the 
concealed bases of the feathers of a fine, violet-glossed black, and the 
residue of a rich bronze hue. 
My attention was first attracted to this state of plumage by two birds 
which I shot in the very act of devouring the eggs of the Night Herons, 
in the heronry on Constitution Island, in the Hudson River, on the 23d 
of May, 1877. These birds were extreme examples. This condition of 
plumage may not be limited to the breeding season, for I have a specimen 
shot in winter, which has one of the rectrices of a rich, purplish bronze- 
color ; hut I found this plumage prevailing in the greater number of speci- 
mens shot during the last week in May. 
BuIi.NiO.0. 3, April, 1878, p. r/. 
ige; the bill and legs were black. The color 
its whole body was a rich drab, with pinkish 
purplish tinge, lighter on breast, the deepest 
ides on upper back and shoulders were 
?htly more slaty. There were two of these 
;ws seen together in company with other 
ws all through the fall, but could not be ap- 
aehed within gunshot till hard weather set 
when one was procured; the other was 
ched for a long time after, but could not 
cached. Q.&O. XIII. Apr. 1888 p. 56. 
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