Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Albinism Among Animals. [ARTICLE]

Albinism Among Animals.

A correspondent writing from Norwich, Conn., calls attention to several rather remarkable instances of albinism recently observed among the lower animals. This season, he says, an unusually large number of albino birds have been seen in eastern Connecticut. A day or two ago three milk-white young robins flitted about in the trees of the Congregational churchyard, at Stonington. Some persons who doubted at first that the birds were robins became convinced when a pair of mature, natural-hued robing, putting in an appearance, took charge of the freaks, and coaxed them away from the neighborhood of a curious crowd that had gathered there. The little fellows were only just learning to fly, and two of the Stonington citizens finally captured and caged them. The birds are said to be getting on well in captivity. Two albino “red” squirrels were seen in the outskirts of Norwich about a fortnight ago. Abram I. Kinne, a farmer of East Plymouth, discovered recently a perfectly white crow in a nest of other normal little ones, which was built in an oak in the woods near his house. He has domesticated the queer bird.—[Scientific American.