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ZOOLOGY. 



have been found at sea, or cast ashore at Newfoundland and 

 the Danish coast ; or their jaws occur in the stomach of 

 sperm whales, as squid of all sizes form a large proportion of 

 the food of sperm whales, dolphins, porpoises, and other 

 Cetaceans provided with teeth. The largest cuttle-fish 

 known is Architeuthis princeps Verrill, the- body of which 

 must be about six and a half metres (nineteen feet) in length, 



and nearly two metres 

 (five feet, nine inches) 

 in circumference. The 

 two longer arms are 9 

 metres long. Arcliiteu- 

 tliis monac7ius Steen- 

 strup has a body about 

 two metres (seven feet) 

 long, and the two long- 

 er arms seven metres 

 ( twenty - four feet) 

 long. A still larger 

 individual was esti- 

 mated by Yerrill to be 

 in total length about 

 fourteen metres (forty- 



Fi<r. 1\. Octopus Bairdii, natural size, dorsal and -P,,, -p Qn j-\ Tf ic, 

 lateral view. Gulf of Maine.-After Verrill. lour 1661). It IS SOme- 



times thrown ashore 



on the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, and in one in- 

 stance attacked two men in a boat. 



The Octopus (Fig. 218) and Argonauta represent the 

 eight-armed forms. 



