[Journals], 1908-1912
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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