. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . I saw an Osprey sitting on one ofthe cross-arms of a telephone postalong the road. The bird did not flybut sat calmly watchful as we passedby. Walter A. Goelitz. Albino Eggs of the Black Stanley Clisby Arthur Ornithologist of the ConservationCommission of Louisiana. A person, animal or plant exhibitingan abnormal congenital deficiency ofcoloring matter is called an term is applied to plants whichare white through a lack of chloro-phyl; to an animal whose coat iswhite whereas the type color may bebrown, black
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . I saw an Osprey sitting on one ofthe cross-arms of a telephone postalong the road. The bird did not flybut sat calmly watchful as we passedby. Walter A. Goelitz. Albino Eggs of the Black Stanley Clisby Arthur Ornithologist of the ConservationCommission of Louisiana. A person, animal or plant exhibitingan abnormal congenital deficiency ofcoloring matter is called an term is applied to plants whichare white through a lack of chloro-phyl; to an animal whose coat iswhite whereas the type color may bebrown, black or gray; to a bird whoseplumage is white instead of being col-ored like its species. Since the discovery of albinismamong the negroes of West Africa byPortugese mariners many hundreds ofyears ago this curious phase of naturehas attracted the close attention andstudy of those scientifically concern-ed. Albinism, according to the bestauthorities, is most common and mostmarked in the negro and Indian racesand it occurs in all parts of the world THE OOLOGIST 183. 184 THE OOLOGIST and among all the varieties of the hu-man race but, undoubtedly, our wond-erment grows when we see it evi-denced among the lower orders as inplant, animal, insect and bird life allabout us. A curious phase of this abnormalwhiteness was thrust forcibly on mynotice in June of 1915 when I waswith Col. Theodore Roosevelt on hisvisit to the bird island reservationsof Louisiana where the breeding colo-nies of terns, gulls and black skim-mers are guarded during the summermonths from molestation by the Con-servation Commission of Louisiana. We were ashore early one hot Junemorning and I was photographing aparticular fine flight of a hundred ormore black skimmers as they skim-med over the surface of the Gulf ofMexico, the majority of these queer-billed birds having their under mandi-ble under water. I was asked topoint out, from many thousands ofeggs that lined the long sand shinglefor about two miles, the eggs o
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