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with white on all 1/2 count up --
20 that summer
June 16-08 Sechelt B.C.
Today three whales were hauled in
which I did not dissect or measure.
They were all females, two old and one
very young. The calf was 25-feet
long and was still sucking as we
found the milk glands well developed
& full of milk in one of its femars.
The calf was very fat it had thick
blubber; its baleen had the bustles
of the extreme bases of the plates dark
grey & all the rest from ant. to
post. pure white, without any
grey showing whatever -- The
excitement was audible that of
the other whales -- it was a
clear brown -- probably due to
its diet of milk.
The milk glands of the females lie
along either side of the ventral line
of its body, but are not parallel --
The anterior ends are much further
apart than the posterior. The
glands lie anterior entirely to there
mammary slit going this slip
at the posterior end. The anterior
ends of the glands lie 74 out apart.