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no.42 J. Sperm July 18-'08 Kyguat B.C.
Color Top+side of head, back+sides to
flukes all dark chocolate - The upper
liffe for about 2 feet from ridges up the
sides of the head are white - the white grades
into the dark of the head gradually, the
[illegible] being light deliberate. - The
deeper jaws is white on the sides with
a few very narrow blushedate dashes - belw
(margin)the dashes are so thirk that the white is
excluded except in a few places - the
white extends back to a letter beyond the
conver of the mouth following each ram
of the mandible as they begin to curve out-
ward / from the symphysis - the dark of
the throat runs up in a triangle betw
the prefrontal ridges of the mandible - from
the [strikethrough]anterior
end of the mouth to the tip of the
sword ain the inferior median line
is a rather narrow, irregular band of
white, streaked with broken lines of [illegible]
chocolate - these lines radiate outward
curve
+backward on either side of the median
line of the sword - Below the belly is
dark chocolate like the back except at
navel - here there is a large solid piece
white patch; this patch sends arms
outward + backward which surround
the penis - the white of the arms grades
off on the sides + at the ends into gray