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Measurements of Sei Whale no.2
1 Total length notch to notch = 1007
3 Notch to eye = 190.
4 " " ear = 25.3
6- " " blowhole (center) = 18.81
6 " " post. insert. pectoral = 360
7 " " " " dorsal = 7510 }
8 Eye to ear (center) = 60
9 " above " = 10
10 Length opening of eye = 7
16 Notch of flukes to post. insert. dorsal. = 290
17 " " " " " pectoral. = 670
18 Length pectoral (tip to head of humerus) = 142
19 " " " " post. insertion = 90.
20 " " " " ant " " = 121
21 Greatest breadth of pectoral = 27
22 Height of dorsal (vertical) = 32
23 Flukes tip to tip. = 245.
26- Depth notch of flukes = 18.
27 Length left lobe axially. = 132
32 " " blowhole straight = 27
33 Dist. apart " anteriorly = 2.51
33 " " " posterialy = 16
37 Across to naval = 180
39 Dist between male mammae = 9
41 Longest plate of baleen (outside) = 381
42 Number... " = 293
44 " of longest junctions (btwn. junc.) = 4.2
Cent.-post. length dorsal = 451