Full text can be accessed at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1980.tb01472.x/epdf?r3_referer=wol&tracking_action=preview_click&show_checkout=1&purchase_referrer=scholar.google.com&purchase_site_license=PUBLICATION_OUTSIDE_OF_LICENSE_PERIODThere are numerous reports in the literature of albinism in bats (Setzer, 1950; Verschuren, 1955; Walley, 1971, and Cerveny & Burger, 1977). Not all records of white or partially white bats represent cases of albinism as defined by Egoscue & Lewis (1 968), and emphasized by Quay (1970). Many authors note records of “partial albinism” which are actually examples of non-albinistic abnormalities in colouration. Of the two most recent reviews, only that of Walley (1971) correctly records separately examples of albinism