[Journals], 1908-1912
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113 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