A.E. Fothingham Calls Robin with White Head a Ku Klux Robin, March 11, 1923

While I don't have a photo of A.E. Frothingham's robin, here is a nice picture taken by Raymond Parsons in 2007 of a partial albino robin.

Ku Klux Bird in Asheville Is Rowdy

By The Associated Press

Asheville, N.C., March 10—Discovery of a Ku Klux robin in this section is vouched for by none other than the head of the United States Appalachian forest experiment station in this city.

A.E. Frothingham, whose home is in Norwood Park, a local suburb, has personally seen the antics of what he chooses to term appropriately the “Ku Klux robin,” a bird of the familiar species, but with a pure white head and neck, giving the robed appearance that suggests the name.

This bird, which has been seen upon his premises for some time past during the early spring, appears to be of a particularly war-like tendency, dominating the neighborhood. Cries of dread alarm from other robins have been heard at hours early and late. The bird in question is an albino, with the pink eyes peculiar to this freak of nature.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, March 11, 1923