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no 21 J Humpback Beak P. June 13-08
Color Back, sides, top of head, black - throat has
scattered large white circles, which lie mostly
in the median line & toward sunset - sides of
throat & breast has no circles - white spot between
pectorals - white fleck-like edging with free
back of eye & about fin - juncture on belly have
a few white flecks on edges - there is almost
no white on left ramus - penist to pleures juffer
+ salt - white in bottoms of junosve from
[illegible] - state of pleures black below
with few white flecks & circles - white spot
underneath the tip of rostrum - roof of mouth
palided light purple + color - base slate blue
as is tongue - underside both ramus are
very light slate-blue, in some place almost
white - Right ramus (outside) circled with
scattering white circles from tip to mouth -
Pectorals left fin black above with white
circles along posterior edge on the tip 1/3 -
Below fin is black at insertion + tip - curve
tried is marked + spotted black + white
Baleen Bristles of extreme cases of all plates
dark gray - of tipsy portions 1/2 seal brown
center of post, 1/2 & all of ant. 1/2 light gray -
External Characters
Top jowlside were examined - width of
center open + deep - 22 cent deep - Edge
strongly crenulated - 26 white hairs on
the top of supralabius - one or two hairs