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07-04-2017, 10:45 AM( This post was last modified: 07-04-2017, 11:06 AM by peter )
ARTICLE ABOUT ALBINISM IN TIGERS (E.P. Gee, JBNHS, Vol. 56)
According to Gee, the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society recorded 17 wild white tigers shot between 1907-1933.
There's however no question that white tigers had been shot before 1907. Gee refers to one shot in Assam 1899 and Pollok wrote he had seen skins of white tigers shot in Assam well before that year.
White tigers have been seen after 1933 as well. The last of these was shot in 1958 in Hazaribagh (Bihar).
There are white tigers and cream coloured tigers. According to Gee, the only true white tiger, a female, was shot in 1922 in Cooch Behar.
When going over everything I have, I concluded that white tigers have been seen and shot in most parts of India before 1960. But most is not all. I never read anything about a white tiger in southern India. In this respect, the white tiger photographed this year in Nilgiris is extra special.