Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — Albino Bats. [ARTICLE]

Albino Bats.

Philadelphia Record. “If you wish to know the most curious thin" I saw during my vacation, it was a colony of white bats,” said an Arch street artist, just returned with others from a sketching tour along the Capes of the Delaware. “One day we found in the woods a deserted old hut with a huge chimney, which we were told had been an illicit whisky still, and we made it our headquarters and slept there one night. “Judge of our surprise when, at twilight, we saw numbers of white objects fluttering in the air over our heads and ’dentified them from their manner of flight, as bats. We traced them to their home in the dilapidated chimney. Whether they were natural' albinos or artificially bleached by the fumes of the still was a question that puzzled us considerably, but they were bats —of that we were all certain. One of our party thought they were covered with chimney lime or ashes, but they were too intensely white for that.”