Albinism and Melanism in North 
American Birds, Ruthven Df-ans, 
I have in my possession a wing of the American Bittern with 
one secondary quill pure white. Mr. B. L. Newcomb of Salem, 
Mass., who shot the bird, states that the rest of its plumage was 
normal. 
Bull. N. O.O. 4,Jan.. 1870, p,30 
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