66 9 P.M. no17 Finback J May 29/10 Aikawa This whale was measured by the writers and as the head was well under water I can be by no means sure that the length as taken was correct. Color A dark individual. Left side top of head slate. Right side toward and at the side of blowhole I could distinguish lighter color but the remainder of the right side seemed to be the same as the left side top of head. Right rammers white at tip shading backward into very light French gray - many white "scars" or bruises. Between The very dark band running out of corner of the mouth right side reaches half way to the fin insertion. Between the corner of the mouth and the fin, right side, an irregular patch of gray runs downward which covers 13 folds. The grayish covers the entire space & forms a rough semi-circle between these two points. At the root of the fin a rather small + indistinct grayish band goes down to back obliquely - there is then a whitish space of about half the length of