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Finback See no 22 for good external description
Color
Fins
See
Whale no. 23 for this
drawn by
Keller
Asteroids
Colors deep blue, & other shades to green
blue—some olive greener. The red of
various shades from brilliant red
to carmine — The others of
yellowish white mingled with purple.
All taken June 12/10 at Albany bay.
A young Finback taken at Albany June 14/10
48 ft. long & has 58 breast folds — The pectorals
above had the entire anterior edge white — the
dark gray pedunculate fins were almost absent
only one showing which ran down for a
short distance exactly opposite the tip of the
fin and back — I found one of the usual
parasites on this animal.
See whale
description
For good description of Sei whale color see
No 38 ♂
Finback
Eye markings
For markings about eye & ear of Finback
see no. 37 ♂
Finback
white tailen
See Whale no's 4 for absence of white talleen
absent.