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Proportion of length of pectoral from head of humerus to total length (average ). 
12.4 per cent. (F. w. 7., compiled.) 
Variation : 11.8 to 13.3 per cent. (#. w. T., compiled.) 
Percentage of total length anterior to the posterior margin of the dorsal fin (average ). 
75 per cent. (F. w. T., compiled.) 
(The larger part of the dorsal lies behind a vertical line drawn through the 
vent. Sars.) 
Variation : 72.9 per cent. to 77.7 per cent. (F. w. T., compiled. 
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Proportion of vertical height of dorsal to total length (average). 
2.3 per cent. (#. w. T., compiled.) 
Variation : 2.0 to 3.5 per cent. (F. w. v., compiled.) 
(Ravin gives 1.4 per cent. in one case.) 
Shape of pectoral fins. 
Anterior edge thick, posterior edge thin. 
Pectorals narrowly lanceolate, with the posterior angle generally but little 
pronounced. (Sars.) 
Color above (normal ). 
Blackish, or gray-black. (Cocks.) 
Light brown-gray, or approaching sepia-color. (Sars.) 
Right lower lip white, left dark. 
Dark color extends obliquely down from behind the pectorals, leaving only a 
narrow white stripe below. (Sars.) 
Variation: Black when some time dead. (Movrim, Ravn, ete.) 
Gray-blue. (Cocks.) 
Sars’s Lofoten specimen had an irregular light patch between the root of the 
pectoral and the corner of the mouth. 
Color below (normal). 
White throughout. 
“With a grayish band passing over it.” (GULDBERG.) 
Variation : Tinged with yellowish, especially in oldish individuals. (Guxp- 
BERG). 
In a dead whale the posterior 12 feet of the “small,” or caudal peduncle, gray 
black. . (Cocks.) 
Yellowish white. (Murm. Specimen some time dead.) 
Markings. 
Jaw and chin white, with black flecks. 
Variation: Left upper and lower lips jet-black. Right lips enamel-, or milk- 
white. (Cocks. Dead whales.) 
