the posterior edge is black - and, black & white. Under side pretty fair all white - only a few scant black streaks at insertion & at edge of very tips - Baleen Bristles all very white except the extreme bases of its posterior [illegible] plates, which are dark gray - all thurst / of its bristles are white including the tips. of the posterin. 1/2 External Characters - Each whale bear on the under side of tip of rostrum just in front of beggining of Shade have two creases like this - These creases are well marked in some whales & in others not so much so - Blubber thickest on top edge of forehead, & back or blowhole & at dorsal fin - given blowhole to lower the blubber there up a little - as side of forehead blubber is thin - The rudimentary test an umbilic is 2 cut long and situated at the root of the penis - About 35 rather long white hairs on the symphysis of mandible - there are knobs on right ramus all of which bear a single hair in their center - Dorsal fin slightly folcate Top of forehead is very lightly cren- ulated - 6 knobs from blowhole to tip in center of head all bearing short hair - Subri hairs on the two knops. Ventral blubber or right side - 9 knobs top of head not counting center line from blowhole - The posterior insertion of the right side.