92 ISOLATIONS WITH t.TIIKII ANIMAL-. 



t':ir .MS the eye of tlir lookout could reach. Mr. Vrolik found in 

 the stomach of a 1 lyperoodon :il>out ten thousand mandible- of 



Loligo.* 



Tin* cephalopoda are essentially carnivorous ; their nourish- 

 ment is derived from iisli. the migrations of which -lu'y follow, 

 mid from Pteropod mollusca. Certain sedentary specie- 

 crustaceans, nndibranchiate mollusks :md lu-yo/oa. A l\er their 

 exclusion, the yonn; prey upon polyps, notably on ihose of 

 family (loro-onidjv. so common on the Al<rerinc co ; ist. ami of 

 which, some perhaps furnish the in;Ueri:d necessary for ', he T< 

 or solidilic;ition of the cut tie-bone. A little larirer. ihe\ at :i<-k 

 with avidity those eleirani cha])lots of pe:irls. the rainbow-hiu-d 

 of Kolis and Doris. t 



The chief article of food of the sperm whale is squid, of which 

 they vomit large quantities in their death au'ony. Tap . I 

 thinks that the whales take them by swimming with lheinou:h 

 so wide open that the lower jaw stnnds at nearl ._.!. s 



with the upper. Squid, he thinks, will i'r:isp :u tiiejawas .lie 

 whale passes ainonir them, and ai'ecul in l'r:ii-nicn!s by i he sudden 

 closure of the jaws. lie stoutly maintains thai he lias >een frag- 

 ments of squid, where the whales had cut ihem in !wo. e\po>iu^ 

 the cnvity of the body, which was as laru'e over as ; jie head of 

 a forty -gallon cask. In one case he saw ihe head of a squid 

 which he believes to have been as lar^e as n su^ar ; i.;t 



It is the ojMiiion of almost all whalemen. -perm whale 



feeds wholly on squid, ('apt. Daniel McKen/ie. of New Bedford. 

 s;iv>: "The smaller kind I hey ea\ is found near : he surface, 

 is from -2 to :> feel in lenii'ih; the larger kind, which |rob- 

 ably have their haunts deep in the sea. musi be of immense -i/e. 

 I have seen very l.-irire junks floMtin>- on the surface entirely 

 sh.Mpelcss." Capi. I''ranci- I'o^i -ays: Whales in t he a^ony of 

 death. IVequently eject from their stomach pieces as lar^e as the 

 bulk of a barrel, and these in hirii'e quaiii ii !<-. I,-ii'-v ))ie< 



H ; iriin<_. in "Verb. K. Aknd. \\Virn. / Amsterdam, i.v, 12, 1861, 



Trrlmis Ni^cr sjusiks of squids iliirlin- into (lie ;iir in sudi ninnluM^- 

 -ink UK- sliij.s upon wliicli ilicy fall, liy 1li'ir wri.r|i<. 



| .\ur:,|,il:iins tttV. <' Mag. '/ 1862. 



Naiurali*t t vii. :'., ! 



