The parts most often affected are the genitals, the hair, the face, the top of the trunk, the nipple, the back of the hands and fingers.

Folker reports the history of a case of an albino girl having pink eyes and red hair, the rest of the family having pink eyes and white hair.

Partial albinism, necessarily congenital, presenting a piebald appearance, must not be confounded with leukoderma, which is rarely seen in the young and which will be described later.
Albinism is found in the lower animals, and is exemplified ordinarily by rats, mice, crows, robins, etc.

In the Zoologic Garden at Baltimore two years ago was a pair of pure albino opossums.

The white elephant is celebrated in the religious history of Oriental nations, and is an object of veneration and worship in Siam.