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119
fingers plate
75-
palmi between flukes varum
130
green gaw by cast wiffen
20
trunk burnat lumens
20
valva ant, front,
70
eye to ant. edge fin
102
No 23 Humpback of June 18-'0s Eckart B.C.
Color Left side of body thinly flecked with
white from pectoral to flukes - flecks are
most thickest just back of pectoral & on
sides of peduncle from vulva to flukes -
from navel to flukes peduncle & belly are
heavily marked with white in flecks -
belly and white flecks heaviest along edges
of folds - breast & throat heavily marked
with white, which runs on sides up to
insertion of pectorals - white is very
heavy in median line - both edges
of dorsal are strongly white - white circles
on both rami from corner of mouth to tip -
heaviest on right ramus.
Pectorals left alone, black heavily circled
with thick white circles along posterior
margin & on the 1/3 of fin toward tips - these
circles look "washed out" underside right,
white with black circles at 1/3 toward tip - these
circles look "washed out" - both fins same -
Palom - Prestles bases at bases are dark gray -
& all rest of prestles to tips light gray
Roof of mouth purple with small dust green