[Journals], 1908-1912
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2 p.m. 47 no. 11 Finback ♂ May 22/10 Aikawa Color Left side of head darker than right - it is dark neutral tint - right side gray glate, the light color extending behind eye & front of eye half way to tip of snout - inside left ramus lighter grey for lower half - upper half slate-right ramus inside all slate. Left out- side is dark slate - right outside is very light. Pectorals Below - a grayish band eight inches wide runs along posterior edge-at tip all except a narrow anterior edging is grayish - rest of under part of fin is white- Above all slate-white not running over and upper sur- face along the anterior edge as is usual. Tips of both fins have been injured. Head On the left side 180 cent. from tip, and 35 cent. from edge of snout is a large scar evidently made by a harpoon. The scar is in the form of an irregular opening 28 cent. long which runs almost straight downward thru' the rostrum. The inside of the scar is covered with black skin. On the lower side it opens in the midst of the baleen, where the baleen has grown together