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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Organic coloring which is different from that which prevails in the species; specifically, in ornithology, an abnormal coloration of the plumage which may take the form of albinism, melanism, the intensification of the normal colors or, more rarely, the introduction of other colors.

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