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process is much quicker & heavier than its offer.
The lamina of its arch meet into a wide square crest which is grooved on top in two places forming between them a low ridge - The two transverse processes project strongly backward + very slightly downward.
The 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th cervical have an upper slower transverse process which are joined distally by a narrow margin - the ends of all these have a low spine.
The 7th cervical above has only a wide flat deep shaped for parabolysis -
1-1/670 | 8-83 17-1/120 28-42 39-83
2-750 | 7-13 18-223 29-40 41-1/80
3-350 | 11-4 19-209 30-4 42-40
4-430 | 12-470 20-48 31-25- 43-58
5-305 | 13-600 21-39 33-24
6-560 | [illegible] 22-87 34-1/35
7-1300 | 16-395 27-1/15 38-3.35.
No 35 - Burphurbottom of July 3-08 Kyngmont B.C.
Color @ very lighter whale, Top of head to eye 1d
slate eye to feathers on back all light blue gray almost solid; there are a few darker markings which show plainest on lower edge of peduncle & on sides just below dorsal -
Belly & breast is blue gray marked with the lighter of its back colors - From fins downward + backward on belly folds, not meeting its median line are mainly love colored markings - there are a part of these markings on the breast (center) opposite the eye - The spots which cannot be seen along the partner's ends of the