A Partial Albino
Journal
Condor
Volume
4
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1902
Pages
46
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
A Partial Albino
On Feb. 19, 1901, I shot an odd female partial albino California bicolored blackbird (Agelaius gubernator californicus) in the willows bordering the salt marshes below Haywards, Cal. The tail has four white feathers, two on each side, while the right wing has two of the primaries white and the left wing one. Otherwise the plumage is normal. The right foot has but two toes, the middle one being gone. A few years ago an adult male redwing with its entire tail white was noted flying about the newly-sown grainfields near town.
W. OTTO EMERSON
Haywards, Cal.
