Sprigtail. Didapper, or dopchick.
Spoon-bi.'led duck. Water-witch. Water-pheafant. Mow-bird. Blue Peter. Water Wagtail. Yellow-legged Snipe. Squatting Snipe. Small Plover. Whiftling Plover. Woodcock. Red bird, with black head, wings and tail.
And doubtlefs many others which have not yet been defcribed and claffed.
To this catalogue of our indigenous animals, I will add a (hort account of an anomaly of nature, taking place fome- times in the race of negroes brought from Africa, who, though black them- felves, have, in rare inftances, white children, called Albinos. I have known four of thefe myfelf, and have faithful accounts of three others. The circum- ftances in which all the individuals agree are thefe. They are of a pallid cadave- rous white, untinged with red, without any coloured fpots or feams; their hair of the fame kind of white, fhort, coarfe^ T and curled as is that of the negroe; all of them well formed, ftrong, healthy, per- fed in their fenfes, except that of fight, and born of parents who had no mixture of white blood. Three of thefe Albinos were fifters, having two other full fifters, who were black. The youngeft of the three was killed by lightning, at twelve years of age. The eldeft died at about 27 years of age, in child-bed, with her fecond child. The middle one is now alive in health, and has iffue, as the eldeft had, by a black man, which iflue was black. They are uncommonly fiirewd, quick in their apprehenfions and in re- ply. Their eyes are in a perpetual tremulous vibration, very weak, and much affeded by the fun: but they fee much better in the night than we do. They are of the property of Col. Skipwith, of Cumberland. The fourth is a neo-ro woman, whofe parents came from Guinea, and had three other children, who were of their own colour. She is freckled, her eye-fight fo weak that fhe is obliged to wear a bonnet in the fummer; but it is better in the night than day. She had an Albino child by a black man. It died at the age of a few weeks. Thefe were the property of Col. Carter, of Albe- marle. A