12 pale is rather meaner & the trumpeth than the N.B. Compared with Franklin's balaen the dark colored part of the sea whose is much darker. In fact the color of the plate is [illegible]. pure white for about 1 inches up from the base, On closer insp. & then became tinged with grayish. On closer insp- spection I discovered that this grayish tinge dark was due to the lead colored of the baleen plates showing through the fringe of bristles, and that the bristles them- selves were not grayish except on the tips of the posterior one half. The pure white strip along the inner base of the baleen plates give the appearance of a white band along both sides of the baleen. The baleen of both sides was alike. The folds end 100 cent. anterior to the umbi- bilicus. N.B. (Umbilicus not located correctly) Osteology Right scapula Left scapula cent cent greatest height (vertical) = 40 Dito = 41 breadth = 66.5 Dito = 66 Length coracoid = 6.5 Dito = 16 acromion = 15 Dito = 7.5- Both scapulae photographed & saved. Left rami of mandible Length straight = 2 2 6 " curved = 2 3 0 Trip to coronoid straight = 189 Height of " vertical = 4.5" (coronoid cut a little)