into three heavy bunches which are white & set loosely in the skin. On the inside of the flippers are many small scattered scars such as would be produced by the bursting of a harpoon bomb. I had an opportunity to examine carefully the head of this whale, as it was typical I will describe its shape in detail. A cross section of the head dir- extly in front of the blowholes would be this The median ridge, which is highest immediately in front of the blowholes runs forward, becoming lower less pronounced until it is lost entirely 10.5 cent. from the tip of the snout. Opposite to the anterior ends of the blowholes & 30 cent. from the median ridge, a low, broad, hump-like ridge begins which runs forward along the edges of the rostrum to the tip. Its summit is rounded. As the central ridge is lost 10.5 cent. from the end of the rostrum and as the two side ridges persist to the extreme tip,