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as well as those taken by myself from the 1909 Cape Cod female here follow, together with their 

 reduction to percentages of the total length. It should be stated that Mr. Blake's measurement 

 of this latter dimension is from tip of lower jaw to notch of flukes, whereas mine is from tip of 

 upper jaw to the same point. The measurements in this and other tables are in English feet 

 and inches to correspond with those given in True's monograph (1904), as well as in meters. 



EUBALAENA GLACIALIS. 



Measurements of the Provincetown 1909 female. 



Tip of upper jaw to notch of tail in straight line 



" " " " " bonnet 



" " " " " last plate of baleen 



" " " " " corner of mouth 

 « « « " " p^.p 



Greatest width of ' bonnet ' anteriorly 

 Greatest vertical thickness of lower lip 

 Transverse width of lower jaw anteriorly 



" " " upper jaw 



Axial length of left blowhole 

 Distance between anterior tips of blowholes 

 Length of eye opening 

 Corner of mouth to anterior insertion of pectoral 



" " " " posterior insertion 

 Anterior border of pectoral from insertion to tip 

 Greatest width of pectoral (from ]iosterior corner) 



" " " at insertion 

 Posterior border of pectoral 

 Vertical thickness of pectoral at insertion 

 Length of manimarv slit 

 Distance apart of mammary slits anteriorly 

 " " " " " " posteriorly 



Vaginal opening to anus 

 Anus to notch between flukes 

 From tip to tip of flukes 

 Caudal notch to anterior insertion of fluke 

 Posterior border of right fluke 



" " left " 

 Anterior border, left fluke, from insertion to tip 

 Depth of caudal notch 

 Breadth " " " posteriorly 



Vertical height of peduncle at insertion of flukes 

 Half girth of head, from between blowholes, over eye 

 Ventral distance between anterior insertions of pectorals 

 Thickness of blubber a yard in front of anus 

 " " " near middle of l.ody 



Ft. 

 34 



1 



7 

 8 

 7 

 1 



3 

 2 



1 



1 



ir 

 11 



3 

 6 

 6 

 6 



1 



10 

 6 



In. 



9 



1 



8 



2 

 10 



1 



3 



8 

 10 



6.5 



4.5 



3 

 10 



9 



4.5 



5 



2 



3 

 3 



7 

 1 

 9 



O 



10 



77 

 

 

 

 8 

 G 

 8 

 8 

 

 8 

 9 

 G 



Meters 

 10. 59 

 0.33 

 2.34 

 2.49 

 2.39 

 0.33 

 0.98 

 0.81 

 0.56 

 0.16 

 0.11 

 0.08 

 0.86 

 0.53 

 1.64 

 1.04 

 0.66 

 0.68 

 0.38 

 0.18 

 0.33 

 0.22 

 0.38 

 3.61 

 3 . 53 

 0,91 

 1.83 

 1.83 

 2.04 

 0.15 

 0.20 

 0.51 

 3.05 

 2.04 

 0.23 

 0.15 



Percentage of 

 total length 

 100 

 3.1 

 22.0 

 23.5 

 5 

 ,1 

 2 



.6 



9 



22. 

 3. 



9. 



7. 

 5. 



1.5 



10 



0.6 



8.1 



5.0 



1.5-: 4 



9.8 



6.2 



6.4 



3.5 



1.7 



3.1 



2.0 



3.6 



34.0 



33.3 



8.6 



17.2 



17.2 



19.2 



1.4 



1.9 



4.8 



28.8 



19.2 



2.1 



1.9 



