A HYBRID? [TO THE EDITOR OF ME " Sescrrron.") SIR,—I
have -read the letters on "A Hybrid ?" in the Spectator with interest, and think your readers may be interested in the following case of albinism. While stationed at Pembroke Dock last winter I used to go out just before dawn to shoot wild-fowl on an arm of Milford Haven. One morning just as it was getting light I noticed a small white object at the water's edge. At first I thought it was a ball of foam; then I saw it move a little, and when I was within a yard of it it ran almost under my feet into a hole in a bank. It was a pure white water-vole. I went there on other mornings to look for it, but never saw it again.
In the garden of my home in Hereford we have had pied blackbirds in several years. One was a fine fellow, white with black and brown spots. A friend near had one almost pure white in his garden for several years, and one winter's morning found it dead. He had it stuffed and has it still.—I am, Sir, &c.,
GEORGE L. WALLIS.
.Rosetta, Natal, S. Africa, February 23rd.
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