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| A white tigress in Orissa | |
| 1910 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (19): 744-744 | |
In the _Indian Forester_ for May Mr. Bavis Singh, Forest Officer, Dhenkanal, Orissa, records the shooting of a white tigress in the Mulin Sub-Division Forest of the Dhenkanal State, Orissa. He describes the colour of the animal as follows:--"The ground colour was pure white and the stripes were of a deep reddish black colour." The tigress was shot over a buffalo kill and was in good condition not showing any signs of disease. There are several previous records of white tigers. In _Wild Sports of Burma and Assam_, Col. F.T. Pollock writes:--"Occassionally white tigers are met with. I saw a magnificent skin of one at Edwin Wards in Wimpole Street, and Mr. Shadwall, Assistant Commissioner in Cossyah and Jynteah hills, also had two skins quite white." Writing in 1907 Mr. Lydekker in the _Game Animals of India_ mentions five white tiger skins as follows:--"A white tiger was exhibited alive at Exeter Change about 1820; a second was killd at Poona about 1892; in March 1899 a white tiger was shot in Upper Assam and the skin sent to Calcutta, where a fourth specimen was received about the same time. The Maharaja of Kuch-Behar also possesses a white tiger-skin." |
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