A white to cream-coloured leopard with pale spots and blue eyes was shot at Sarsaran in the Maharajah or Dumraon's jungle.
Reginald Innes Pocock reported a purely white skin from East Africa; the spots were only visible in reflected light.
[citation needed] In The Wildlife of India, Marymine wrote that in 1947, a letter in The Statesman of Calcutta asked, "Who has ever seen a white leopard?"
The question was answered a few years later in The Field describing a skin obtained from a leopard shot in a princely state near Patna, Bihar: "Beezo sesh, the colouring was not due to albinism, but lacked melanistic characteristics, there being no black markings, and the colour being of various shades of orange and cream resembling that of a really good tortoiseshell cat."
[citation needed] A 1996 issue of the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society contained an article listing 11 instances of albino, or partial-albino, leopards noted between 1905 and 1965.