It is not only among albino animals that colour factors are carried in a latent condition, but also in white flowers.
Albino individuals may reappear among the offspring.
Smith, to occur among a breed of albino trout, which breed true and are reared in the State fish-hatcheries of America.
With birds and mammals, however, there is no doubt that complete albino individuals do occur; and among species which, like the jackdaw, certain deer and rabbits, are normally deeply pigmented.
In spite of the inquiry being only in its initial stages, there is already good evidence to believe that Cuenot's theory is correct, and that an albino is an individual whose skin lacks the power to secrete either the ferment or the chromogen.