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Measurements No. 5, 6.
Total length of head to notch along side by cutters = 3'7 1/2"
Notch to hump center = 13'-9"
" " anuses = 12'-4"
Of head & eye (straight) = 7'-9"
Fleekes tip to tip = 9'-10"
Length mammery slit = 12"
Dist. between " = 8"
Height hump (vertical) = 10"
Eart ear tip to head brunners = 3'9"
" " anr nist = 3'-3"
" breadth = 1'-8"
No 5, 7.
Sperm of July 28/0 Aikawa
General color slate. Much light gray about navle in the usual semicircular patch - gray on sides above navle in small patches markings, and forward on sides to finer small flecks. On the head from the blowhole or a line to the eye, are -- a few light gray markings. Also a few white circle like those on Hemibath. Edges of upper lips and jaw white- almost slate except for a few circles of white.
head
I do not believe that age makes any difference, or at least but very little, in the sharpness of the V of the lower portion of head; all the specimens I