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many localities but perhaps most numerous off the west coast of 

 Mexico and among the Philippines. Whale sharks are to be ex- 

 pected anywhere in our area for they have been seen repeatedly 

 off Brazil, in various parts of the Caribbean and off the Gulf of 

 Mexico, off Cuba, in southern Florida and in the Gulf Stream 

 between Florida and the Bahamas. Occasional specimens have 

 even been known to stray as far north as New York. 



