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mark go run down nearly to median line
Dorsal fin is very light gray along its anterior
margin rest dorsal same color as jedewell -
inside both pairs of mandibles has and .
1/2 white - part 1/2 very light gray - Roof of
mouth indigo - Sides of flukes dark slate
blue or gray like head above - below is
very light gray blue with fine darker wavy lines
running center - postwarly curving inward
and not quite reaching the posterior edge.
Pectorals - Left above dark gray except
at tip, where it + its ant. + float - margins
from for me fort back ward are cream
white - underside all cream white
to insertion - The right fin like left above
+ below except that its white anterior margin
extends half way to insertion - Both
fins have had the tips injured; they look
as if' they had been chewed off - Mr.
Ruck says many are in the same con-
dition.
Baleen - indigo blue both plates + bristles -
baleentrums meet in front by a thin line.
Roof of mouth is indigo + is 17 cent. wide +
sides are parallel - half way back the sides
begins to curve outward - The median ridge
is low + begins half way back - baleen begin,
19 cent. from tip of snout .
The epidermis peels off very easily +
below the dermis is very light slate blue which