(that is the area occupied by the throat creases) the color is mixed gray & white, "pepper & salt." The color of the body changed very quickly from slate to brownish black when the animal was drawn out of the water. External There are a great number of Characters short shallow creases on throat between the base of the mandible & to point a little behind the corners of the mouth. At base of skull where the head was disarticulated from the vertebral column, the head was 9" ft 6 inches in diameter, includin cluding blubber. The entire epidermal layers pull off very easily - the outer one is almost as thin as that of a Blue Whale. The "rumbles" of blubber extend forward as far as a point opposite the eye, but only on top of head. Just behind corner of mouth Blubber is 36 cent. thick - this is thickest place in head. Blubber white with a yellowish