4.30 P.M. 51 No 12 Finback J May 22/10 Aikawa Color Left side top of head is dark slate or neutral - Right side has lighter semi- circular area running upward and forward from fin as far as blowhole and forwands along outer half of rostrum not reaching tip. On the top of the head are irregular light patches looking as tho the epidermis had been rubbed off. Back and extremities sides are slate - on left side a light band at runs to eye. The under edge of the snout is flesh pink for same distance as white portion of baleen. Left rams very dark slate (almost black) & [illegible] 1/4 feds below the corner of mouth this color extends. This dark color is narrower near distal end of ramus & widens as it goes backward. Right ramus very light gray (almost white) shading into the white of the central throat; a very dark patch or band runs backward out of corner of mouth - The gray of the sides comes down very far on the peduncle leaving only a narrow mid ventral strip white. The peduncle & lower sides are a beautiful blacula gray - In stead of two narrow bands of gray running down