[Journals], 1908-1912
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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