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Measurements of No 59
Total Length (by cutters)
= 30'
Flukes tip to tip
= 8'-11"
Notch to humip (center)
= 14'-1"
" " arms
= -
Height humips
= 7"
Et. of head to eye (straight)
= 7'-10"
" " " cor. 7 months
= 6'-5"
Tip mandible & " "
= 4'-4"
Eye to blowhole
= 7'-6"
Blushle (center) to tip of mandible closed
= 3'-1"
Length blowhole (straight)
= 10"
Blowhole anguler
Fin tip to head humerus
= 8'-6"
" " breadth
= 1'-7"
No 60 Sperm ♀ July 29/10 Aikawa Japan
This whale contained foetus no 60a.
Color
General color slate. The light gray color
is in bands about 2 inches wide which
run from genitalia's lower sides
forward: then the sides go
half way to pectorals
and on these sides those bands end
in a mass of fine dots which reach
nearly to the pectorals and give a "jeffer
salt" effect. The band on the ventral
surface run from the genitalia to the
navel coming together there in a point.
These bands give a peculiar striped