Most tigers are tawny brown in color with dark stripes and whitish stomachs.
Reports and records indicate however, that a few wild tigers have been seen in unusual colors, including all white and all black . A mutation of the Bengal subspecies, white tigers have dark brown or reddish brown stripes on a white ground-color. More about white tigers White Tigers Without Stripes White tigers showing no stripes have been recorded. Black Tigers Melanistic or black tigers have tawny, yellow or white stripes on a black ground color. In October 1992 the skin of a melanistic tiger was recovered from smugglers at Tis Hazari.