10 pm 35 no. 7 Blue Whale ♂ April 14/10 Oshima The length of this whale was the total of three sections. Color Body The top of the head is almost as light gray as are the markings - it is solid color - at blowwhales it is darker - the lighter markings extend (on left side) forward to the eye ending there in very small patches - On the left side of the body as far as the end of the fin the light color is almost solid, broken in only a few places by the darker ground color. On the sides of the peduncle from the fin backward to the flukes the light & dark colors are about equal in quantity - the light color is in small patches - just forward of flukes there is more dark than light - Along the ridge of the back from fins to flukes the lighter dark color predominates- but there are also many rather small light markings - On its sides the light markings follow down ward along the edges of the furrows closely but do not seem over onto the pector. Just above the left fin the light color is almost solid - The light gray mark- ings which follow the ends of the folds