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generally do in order to cover their 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 arm 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, Eev. 

 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 

 1S70-'71. 



No. 10. — Sperm-whale specimen. (ArcJiiteiithis pr biceps.) 



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 

 Architeiithis princejys, and described in my former papers, with figures 

 of both jaws. 



No. 11. — Second Bonavista Bay specimen, 1872. 



The Eev. 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 

 aud very stout, and that the largest suckers were 2.5 inches in diameter. 

 The size of the suckers is probably exaggerated, and most likely tbe 



'American Naturalist, vol. vii, p. 91, 1373. 



