ventral line. This ventral line the the belly is light pink mucous membrane in mouth is pink- Flukes below grayish white above dark- Pictures above dark Dorsal fin is dark slate on runcus like back- Very high (photographed) Eye Pupil widely elliptical- iris brown- then comes a very narrow ring of dark blue, then a wider ring of bluish-white, then ring of brown which gradually shades off into white of eye ball Baleen The greater portion of baleen plates is very dark of dark slate lead color but a narrow streak of the inner edge is white- like this A dark lead one The bristles are all white ex- white A lead one cpt at the tips which are grayish - in the except at proper tip. anterior 1/2 of baleen the bristles are all white The bristles of posterior 1/2 become grayish at the tips, the gray being of greater extent that are the very back portions. When I first looked at baleen I thought that the bristles of all the plates were See descent im of baleen of not see whale for another full + detailed account.