[15] CEPHALOPODS OF NORTHEASTERN COAST OF AMERICA. 
.33 feet long. He did not measure the short arms, but estimated them 
at 13 feet, and that they were much thicker than a man’s thigh at their 
bases. The people cut the body open and it was left on the beach. It 
is an out-of-the-way place, and no one knew that it was of any value. 
Otherwise it could easily have been brought to Saint John’s with only 
the eyes destroyed and the body opened.” It was subsequently carried 
off by the tide, and no portion was secured. 
This was considerably larger than the Catalina specimen. 
The great thickness of the short arms of this specimen, and of some 
of the others, indicates a species distinct from A. Harveyi, unless the 
sexes of that species differ more than is usual in this respect among 
the smaller squids. The length of the sessile arms, if correctly stated, 
would indicate that this specimen belonged to A. princeps. In the 
female Ommastrephes illecebrosus, the common northern squid, the head 
is usually larger, the short arms are stouter, and the suckers are often 
larger than in the male, of the same length. 
No. 17.—TRINITY BAY SPECIMEN, 1877. 
Mr. Harvey also states that he had been informed by Mr. Duffet that 
another very large ‘big squid’ was cast ashore in October, 1877, about 
five miles farther up Trinity Bay than the last. It was cut up and used 
for manure. No portions are known to have been preserved, and no 
measurements were given. 
No. 18.—THIMBLE TICKLE SPECIMEN, 1878. 
The capture of this specimen has been graphically described by Mr. 
Harvey, in a letter to the Boston Traveller of January 30, 1879: 
“On the 2d day of November last, Stephen Sherring, a fisherman 
residing in Thimble Tickle (Notre Dame Bay), not far from the locality 
where the other devil-fish (No. 19) was cast ashore, was out in a boat 
with two other men; not far from the shore they observed some bulky 
object, and, supposing it might be part of a wreck, they rowed toward 
it, and, to their horror, found themselves close to a huge fish, having 
large glassy eyes, which was making desperate efforts to escape, and 
churning the water into foam by the motion of its immense arms and 
tail. It was aground and the tide was ebbing. From the funnel at the 
back of its head it was ejecting large volumes of water, this being its 
method of moving backward, the force of the stream, by the reaction 
of the surrounding medium, driving it in the required direction. At 
times the water from the siphon was black as ink. 
“Finding the monster partially disabled, the fishermen plucked up 
courage and ventured near enough to throw the grapnel of their boat, . 
the sharp flukes of which, having barbed points, sunk into the soft 
body. To the grapnel they had attached a stout rope, which they had 
carried ashore and tied to a tree, so as to prevent the fish from going 
