yet alive. A short time after death the colors had begun to change; the dark gray of its back had become black and the light gray of the sides of the body was much darker. In consequence of these changes the contrast between the light & dark colors does not show in the photographs in its real value. The following is a really beautiful and real when seen while retaining its natural colors, External notes The tip of the fin laid back is exactly opposite the anterior [illegible] of the dorsal - thus in the point of greatest girah There were no evidence of hair - between the body & head. The stomach was empty - The center of the eye directly below the blowhole - The blowhole is not quite regularly semicircular) The superior outline of the peduncle from the dorsal to a point 3.50 cm. from the root of the pectorals is almost a straight line; it then rises slightly (about .1cm.) it slants gradually down to the fleshes, its ridge becoming lost half way across its surface. The upper ridge of the peduncle is rounded near the dorsal but gets gradually sharper