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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 -