WHITE BADGERS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,--in connexion with the letter in your issue of August 5th on the subject of badgers and the occasional occurrence of an albino specimen, those interested might like to learn that the Natural History Museum,. South Kensington, was good enough to accept from me some years ago a stuffed badger, pure white in colour. This animal was picked up dead on or near Alder- stead Heath, in the parish of Merstham, Surrey, about the year 1864. Badgers 'were not uncommon in that neighbourhood in those days, finding the ancient workings of the stone quarries in Merstham and Chaldon secure places for their earths. In the
'fifties of the last century my father used to hunt them on moonlight nights with a small pack of dachshunds imported by him from Germany. The district in question is now much more thickly populated than then, and I am unaware whether badgers are still to be found there.—I am, Sir, Sze.,
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