draining a lunch. Mast's Finback 9 Aug. 8-'08 Tyee, Alaska Almost top of head, left side & back + upper sides to flukes is neutral tint -- upper sides back as far as opposite vulva as like back, grading into the white of belly gradually. The sides of the peduncle shade from the neutral tint of the mid-dorsal region into a light gray with a shade of bluish-gray. Below which left side, from summit to navel dark -- the upper portion of the left side has both folds & furrows dark slate -- the lower half to navel -- ventral line has folds light slate & furrows dark. The gray of the sides of the peduncle comes down farther & farther toward the mid-ventral line as the flukes are approached, but so that from anus to flukes over a narrow band of white two or three inches wide is left on its way near -- ventral line. From insertion of fin + a little backward, this white area extends downward & backward to shade of belly -- very distinct -- A band of its lighter gray of the sides, about three feet wide, runs from across belly -- the post. edgeband is at navel -- the band in the very central line is whitish. From navel to anus the belly is pure white. Right side edge of rostrum is blue-gray grading into darker.