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No 32. Sulphurbottom June 30-'08--Kugyut, B.C.
Coln Top of head clear, thnt & lips as far back
as eye dark slate blue--from eye to insert
of pen & above on back & upper sides to a
point opposite the peris, almost solid
light blue gray, marked in only a few
scattered places with, elliptical spots having
irregular margins--on lower half
of sides to peris the ground color is
blue-gray (not as dark as head nearly) heavily
with irregular patches of the light color
of the upper sides--the patches or markings
are about bridges long diameter.
These begin at the posterior crescent of
the pectoral, turn downwards along the
edges of the furrows to the peris where
they meet in the median line from
peris to travel to peris which is
clear gray. From peris back its peduncle
is almost entirely light gray blue which
is marked with black in only a few
patches on the lateral median line--from
dorsal fin to flukes the top edge of the
peduncle & about a foot docern on either
side is darker bluish gray & unmarked--
just in front of the peris there is
a patch of dove colored markings--
below from symphyses to eye, thnt is
dark slate-blue like top of head & has
no markings whatever--from eye to
pectoral on the sides of the breast & the