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An obituary of sorts ran in the 13 May 1871 edition of the Cecil Whig for a leucistic blackbird that was captured near Elkton.

An obituary of sorts ran in the 13 May 1871 edition of the Cecil Whig for a leucistic blackbird that was captured near Elkton. “Many of our readers have seen the remarkable bird, which was slightly wounded and captured by James B. Groome, Esq., in September, 1867, and which has since been on exhibition at the Drug Store of Arthur W. Mitchell, Esq., of this town. This bird, although unmistakably of the black bird, or Starling species, by a remarkable lusus naturae, had, when first captured, a white feather for every black one usually seen on birds of its class, but had the unmistakable re...