[ 11 ] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
generally do in order to cover tlieir escape. The men in the boat de¬ 
termined to secure it. After it had taken the boat in its arms, they 
tried to ship it with their oars. One of these broke, but another boat 
coming to aid in the capture, the squid was taken hold of by a grapnel 
and rolled into a seine-boat. The boats were engaged in the herring¬ 
fishing. This also appears to have been the squid’s occupation about 
the time of its capture; The length of its longest aym was 37 feet; the 
length of the body 15 feet $ whole length 52 feet. The bill was very large. 
The suckers of its arms or feet, by which it lays hold, about 2 inches in 
diameter. The monster was cut up, salted, and barreled for dog’s meat.” 
In this account the length given for the “ body ” evidently includes the 
head also. This creature was probably disabled, and perhaps nearly 
dead, when discovered at the surface, and this seems to have been the 
» case with most of the specimens hitherto seen living. Animals of this 
sort probably never float or lie quietly at the surface when in good 
health. 
Nos. 8 and 9.—Lamaline specimens, 1S70-’71. 
Mr. Harvey refers to a statement made to him by a clergyman, Kev. 
A. E. Gabriel, of Portugal Cove, that two specimens (Nos. 8 and 9), 
measuring respectively 40 and 47 feet in total length, were cast ashore 
at Lamaline, on the southern coast of Newfoundland, in the winter of 
1870-71. 
No. 10.—Sperm-whale specimen. (ArcMteuthis princeps.) 
Plate XI, figures 1, 2. 
This specimen, consisting of both jaws, was presented to the Peabody 
Academy of Science, at Salem, Mass., by Capt. N. E. Atwood, of Prov- 
incetown, Mass. It was taken from the stomach of a sperm-whale, but 
the precise date and locality are not known. It was probably from the 
North Atlantic. The upper jaw was imperfectly figured by Dr. Packard 
in his article on this subject.* It is one of the largest jaws yet known, 
and belonged to an apparently undescribed species, which I named 
ArcMteuthis princeps, and described in my former papers, with figures 
of both jaws. 
No. 11.—Second Bonavista Bay specimen, 1872. 
The Rev. M. Harvey, in a letter to me, stated that a specimen was 
cast ashore at Bonavista Bay, December, 1872, and that his informant 
told him that the long arms measured 32 feet in length, and the short 
arms about 10 feet in length, and were “thicker than a man’s thigh.” 
The body was not measured, but he thinks it was about 14 feet long 
and very stout, and that the largest suckers were 2.5 inches in diameter. 
The size of the suckers is probably exaggerated, and most likely the 
American Naturalist, vol. vii, p. 91,1873. 
