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fresh). Notch between flukes fully 23 in. deep. Width of 
flukes, at eight inches from central line of vertebral column, 
1 ft; 7 in. 
Capt. I. Bryde told me that on one occasion (two or three 
years ago), when towing a Blue Whale to his factory in Busse 
Sund, he fell in with a small school of these marine wolves, and 
by the time he reached the sound they had pretty well stripped 
the blubber, and even the flesh, off the whale. 
The last live whales that I saw were three Blue Whales 
going south into Varanger Fjord, about opposite Ekkeré, on 
August 20th. 
The dead whales included several Common Rorquals, of one 
of which I took the following notes at Evensen’s Factory at 
Vardo, on August 21st :— 
Male, 71 English feet long. Left upper and lower lip 
jet-black. Right lips enamel- or milk-white. The colour of 
the inside of the lower jaw on each side, the contrary to the 
outside. The right side was already flensed, but the white 
certainly extended much further round to the side than on the left 
side. Black above. Whole under side, except left side of chin 
and last twelve feet of tail, white; the black on the keel being 
grey-black, and shading off somewhat gradually. The sinall, 
or tail about one foot from flukes, only measured about fifteen or 
sixteen inches transversely. The ridges on the under side white, 
the furrows nearly all black. 
On the 20th passed Capt. Hoff on the Hvalen, in Varanger 
Fjord, towing a very light-coloured Common Rorqual and a 
small black-bellied Humpback. Another Humpback (a male) 
on the same day, in Busse Sund (Capt. Gron’s), was white- 
bellied, and nearly the whole of outside of flipper was white; a 
patch of black, about a foot wide, near the middle of the 
under side. A female Rudolphi’s Rorqual, also lying there, was 
blue on the under side, with hardly any white. 
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are marked by italics. 
