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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



No. I. -A WHITE TIGRESS IN ORISSA. 



in the LuJian Forester for May Mr. Bavis Singh, Forest OflBcer, 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 

 Ditrma and Assam, Col. F. T. Pollock writes : — " Occasionally white tigers are 

 met with. I saw a magnificent skin of one at Edwin Wards in Wimpole Street, 

 and Mr. Shadwall, Assistant Commissioner in Ccssyah 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 killed 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 receiv- 

 ed about the same time. 

 The Maharaja of Kuch- 

 Behar also possesses a white 

 tiger-skin." 



No. II.— PANTHERS 

 TAKING THEIR " KILL " 

 UP TREES. 



ago some 



A short time 

 notes were published in the 

 JoDrnal about this habit and 

 probably the enclosed photo- 

 graph will be of interest. 



The calf — head and neck 

 one side of a fork in the 

 trunk of the tree and hind 

 legs and tail on the other — 

 is seen to be well hung up 

 some 12 or 14 feet from 



