From the June 13, 1931, issue
By Science News
TWIN ALBINO ROBINS HATCHED WITH NORMAL BIRD
Two albino robins, highly interesting and rather rare oddities in the bird world, have been watched from hatching to early maturity at the home of H.D. Shaw of Grinnell, Iowa, and had their pictures taken by Miss Cornelia Clarke, nature photographer.
The nest was built high up on the ledge of the porch where it wad sheltered and partly hidden by the vines, Miss Clarke writes. There were three eggs in the nest. Two hatched the albinos and the third an ordinary brown robin. The parents were normal in every respect except that the mother robin had two white tail feathers that were plainly visible when she was in flight. It is a curious circumstance that a white robin was seen near the Shaw home for several weeks the summer before the albinos were hatched.