"The Taipei" 3:30 P.M. 187 note 9 Sei Whale 5 Aug 5/10 Akahara Nikuyama Throat folds white - Right [illegible] up, eight gray shading into pinkish white on lower portion of promences. Flukes at about the same angle as at Fairbach. Total (by exellers) Flukes to dorsal " " anes. Snout to eye " " blowhole Height dorsal = 48' - 4" = 14'-2" = 11"-11" = 9'-3" = 7'-1" = 1'-6" 1473 432 363 282 216 46 Notes on a foetal Sei Whale 8'-6" long taken from a female 48 ft. long killed Aug 5/10 (untwists). The blowholes are situated between and ab two prominences which meet anteriorly, forming a V. By inserting my finger in the blowhole [illegible] and pressing downward & forward enough to open the exterior nasal passages, the prominences at the sides & in front of the nostrils were considerably raised. This must be the position taken assumed during the expir- ation, as the expulsion of the breath opens the interior nasal passages. By spreading the nostrils until they looked the form of a wide ellipse wheel, as shown by my photos, as their cent- iron during inspiration, both edges raised slightly of the blowholes were raised, the inner