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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