Albinism snd Melanism in North 
American Birds. Buthven D-ane, 
A mottled Rusty Blackbird has been mounted by Mr. W. H. 
Collins of Detroit, Mich., 
BmlLN.O.O. 4, Jan., 1879, p.29 
lj.naty Blackbird— Male. Burlington, Iowa, May, 
1888. Head white, rest of plumage natural, except 
two primaries on each wing, and a few scattering 
feathers which are white. 
O.&O. XIII, Aug. 1888 p. 12 S' 
Albinos. 
BY GEO. G. CANTWELL, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
It has been my good fortune to secure dui mg 
the last season several birds that were partially 
subject to this strange feature. 
On April 13th I collected a $ Rusty Grackle 
with two large patches of white on its breast, 
one is in the form of a half circle about three- 
fourths of an inch long, by one-fourth of an 
inch broad, and is situated on the lower part of 
the throat in the form of a beautiful necktie. 
The other patch is more or less round, about 
an inch wide, and is situated on the right breast 
where the bend of the wing nestles in the 
feathers, so when the wings are folded these 
white feathers lay over it. 
I secured it more by luck than anything else. 
I was out for a stroll with a friend who had a 
small caliber rifle with him ; he wanted to get 
some kind of a bird that would skin easy, as he 
was not very apt in that line, so I pointed him 
out a black bird in a tree near by and told him 
that would make an easy specimen, and asked 
him to let me try my skill at shooting, which he 
did, and I luckily killed it, which proved to be 
my first Albino bird. 
O.&o. XIII. Dec. 1888 p. 184 
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