Dorsal 4 blubber. (Both sides photographed) The dorsal fin is large x high [illegible] is deeply concave and deeply falcate. The tip over hangs so greatly that it will not stand erect, bending to either side. The color is dark slate like the back. (Photographed) Baleen It was impossible to get a very good view of the baleen of this whale while it was intact as the light was poor. However all the bristles of the anterior half of the rows seemed to be all white. The [illegible] of the proximal half were all grayish and the very proximal portion (about 1/6 of the distal row) show bristles all grayish. I counted carefully the plates on the left side from the very antemosts two inches high to the posterior ones. There were but 290 on this side. The anterior plates of baleen for 16 cent, see on each side were yellow with white. As I examined carefully all the baleen plates which were spread out to dry in the sun upon the slip. The color of the baleen is very hard to describe as it changes as much