plumes composed of a mass of irregular feathers, one to three inches in height; their bristles are all thickly besetted with barriers-barbundles & Cyamus. There are approximately 20 feathers on the breast - I could not count each one. The plectra on the anterior edge has 7 bundles all covered with barbundles & Cyamus. T3 baleen The baleen of both sides is a deep [illegible] black in color, with a brunswick tinge when reflected in the sunlight. On its inside the bristles are very stiff & long. From the front to the back of the baleen-row a broad band of dirty grey, about 18 inches wide extends. This greyish band begins at its bases after baleen plates & extends up- ward about 18 inches - the bristles thence to the tips are very dark brown. The margin of this band is not sharply defined; but there is a gradation. As the plates of baleen become shorter toward the anterior end of its row more a new or third length is occu- pied by the grey band and must all the clusters of the anterior portions of the rows are grayish even tips. The inner edges of