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[contained a small foetus (preserved)]
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no 58 sperm ♀ July 29/10 Airbawa Japan
Dram - det on slip, whale had two "humps"
color
General color slate. There is a
Crescent shaped patch in front of
Genitalia as usual & gray extends
up to the mid - lateral line.
The gray patches are large & heavy.
Many light gray flecks & dashes
along sides, on the sides of its peduncle,
and scattering lines of them obliquely
forward on to the lower back.
A few extend forward on its sides
as far as pectorals. A few gray
flecks & patches between pectorals
on the breast. No light gray imme-
diately about navel. A few light gray
flecks on upper sides near & behind
first hump. A small line of scattered
rather large light gray marks from
eye to blowhole. Lower two-thirds of
extremity of head white mixed with
gray - upper lips white & mandible
white, its central portion thickly
marked with longitudinal oblong
small
gray spots.
Head &
The outline of top of head from the
Bark
extremity & base of skull is slightly
Outline
concave - at base of skull there
is a rise & from here to first hump
back metrically very slightly concave;