[Journals], 1908-1912
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Humpback whale No.2 May 22 -08 Eckart B.E. J Color Back top of head & sides deep blue black - much white on chin & throat [illegible] taking the form of streaks & splashes. The white is heaviest in the median line & this, which extends in a V shaped mass down to the breast - it ends out scar in center of breast which looks much like the navel - below this scar & on its belly there is but little white - only a few scattering streaks - there is little white on its sides below the pectorals except in the median line of its breast - There are a few white circles along the jaw bone, but not a great many. There are specks & dots of white from the penis nearly to the insertion of the plumes on the inferior median edge of its peduncle. The inner side of the lower lips are blue black, but a deal lighter than the out sides - 2 small patches of white were present as kinds of lips - The skin of the tongue is much lighter than the lips - a beautiful blue gray - this membrane looks exactly like crepe paper. The circles of white were mostly con- fined to the region of the jaw bones in both whales -