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Taleom - The bristles of the anterior plates
are very white - those of the intervening plates
except the tips are grey - tips brown.
No. 6 Humpback Set 3 May 28-'06 Gerhard
Color
Top, head, back, sides + belly black - many
large white circles on both rami of median
lobe which extend down over throat and
chin half way back to pectorals; from
here back to insertion of pectorals the
white is confined to small flesh & vert,
many of these nearly in median region
midwhite in fine streaks from head
to flukes, like pepper & salt. - On upper
edge of peduncle at insertion of flukes
the is a large yellowish white spot - slab
of flukes black above. A large white tranven
spot with ragged margins in median line
of breast, a little back by insertion of fins-
edges of folds strongly edged with white
on breast - Roof of mouth light purple
Pectorals Left Pectoral below toward body 1/2
black - 1/2 turns up white with sparse pale
black
circles - both margins edged with black
above black - few white circles along post-
erior margin -
Right pectoral - black above - many circles -