[Journals], 1908-1912
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10:30 P.M. 147 Go Nagai Maru - crossed out. No 46 Sperm & July 14/10 Aikana Japan Color slate - gray (light) semicircular patch curving about seminabilites, of the side directly above washed with grays. Length vertex to extremity of head by cutters = 45" Flukes to hump (dorsal) = 53.8 cent, Fin tip to post. wrist. = 9.5 " " " " " " = 140 " Height hump = 25 " Flukes breadth ant. post = 10 1/2 " External characters: No 47 Sperm & July 14/10 Aikana This whale was drawn out upon the slip I measured carefully. Color General color slate. Just in front of the seminabilites is a semicircle of gray (light) the convexity backward. That is, the mark curves backward from the mane on the sides. (The same mark on same position, in the Van do. specimen.) A few light gray dashes along upper edge of forehead & just below eye on the side of the head. The upper half of the lower jaw is white - the upper lip is white marked with dark spots. There is a marked dip just behind the head in the middle of its back.