67 the fin laid back, a gray band 4 ft. long & 18 inches wide runs down & back. This band is well marked & square at the distal end. Next to comes a white space & then I opposite the tip of the fin laid back, a third short band begins which merges into the gray of the sides. From the end of the folds on the sides, to the generated the line of light gray is almost straight; it then begins to slant down regularly to the flukes, where it is reaching within two or three inches of the mid-ventral line at the flukes insertion. The gray goes into the white of the sides rather abruptly; many white scars on the peduncle. 1 Total length (measured by whalers along side) = 60 ft. /6 notch of flukes to post. wrist of dorsal = 440 /8 Pectoral tip to head of humerus = 200 21 ' greatest breadth = 55 29 Depth peduncle at ant. inst. of flukes = 80 (tip of pectoral body injured)