There is a case of a brother and sister who were albinos, the parents being of ordinary color but the grandfather an albino.

Coinde, quoted by Sedgwick, speaks of a man who, by two different wives, had three albino children.
A description of the ordinary type of albino would be as follows: The skin and hair are deprived of pigment; the eyebrows and eyelashes are of a brilliant white or are yellowish; the iris and the choroid are nearly or entirely deprived of coloring material, and in looking at the eye we see a roseate zone and the ordinary pink pupil; from absence of pigment they necessarily keep their eyes three-quarters closed, being photophobic to a high degree.

They are amblyopic, and this is due partially to a high degree of ametropia (caused by crushing of the eyeball in the endeavor to shut out light) and from retinal exhaustion and nystagmus.

Many authors have claimed that they have little intelligence, but this opinion is not true.

Ordinarily the reproductive functions are normal, and if we exclude the results of the union of two albinos we may say that these individuals are fecund.
Partial albinism is seen.