6.15 9 M. No 23- -Humpback ♂ June 17/10 Aikawa This whale was very "thick" & stout. The flubber was very fat thick. Head, sides & back, black - the sides & back marked with a very few small white flecks. Right lower lip thickly marked with circles & semi- circles of white - The throat breast & belly to the ends of folds, white, thickly & marked with black in flecks & lashes which are usually directed obliquely down back. On the right side of the throat just under running the black & white is about equal in quantity. A black band, thickly lashed with white series obliquely backward from right fin meeting with the mid-ventral line a similar band from left side, thus forming a rough V. The apex of the V is offsite a point about 1/3 the length of the fin where back back. A few white spots & streaks between fin & eye. Just forward of penis shaft, is a wedgeshaped circular band of white, & from this forward to travel a narrow black ventral line, about the "hump" on the ventral line is much white & many circles. The left runners & lips are black marked with only a few circles of white.