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the Logie Bay specimen. As the relative size of the large 
suckers is a good sexual character among squids, it is probable 
the above ance tes be en as I believe, then the body 
could not e been more than about 10 feet long, and 2°%5 
in diameter, aad the “Asses arms should have been about 32 feet 
in length. Allowing two feet for the head, the total length 
would, therefore, be about 44 feet 
Another specimen (No. 8), probably xs the same Baca and 
similar in size to the last, was captured at Coombs’ , New 
foundland. The following account has been taken face a news- 
paper article of which I do not know the precise date, forwarded 
to me by Professor Baird, together with a letter, dated June 15, 
1873, from T. R. Bennett, Esq., of English Harbor, NK, who 
states that he w rote the article, and that the measurements were 
made by him, and are perfectly reliable. 
“Three days ago, there was quite a large squid run almost 
ashore at Coombs’ Cove, and some of the inhabitants secured it. 
The body measured 10 feet in length and was nearly as large 
round as a hogshead. One arm was about the size of a man’s 
wrist, and measured 42 feet. in length ; the other arms were 
only 6 feet in length, but about 9 inches in diameter, very stout 
and strong. The skin and flesh were 2°25 inches thick, and 
reddish inside as well as out. The suction cups were all clus- 
tered together, near the extremity of the long arm, and each cup 
was surrounded by a serrated edge, almost like the teeth of a 
hand-saw. I presume it made use of this arm for a cable, and 
the cups for anchors, when it wanted to come to, as well as to 
Secure its prey, for this ee finding a heavy sea was 
tiving it ashore, tail first, seized hold of a rock and moored it- 
self quite safely until the men pulled it on shore.” 
It would appear from this description that one of the long 
arms had been lost before the capture. The large diameter of 
the short arms, compared ~ t - eng and with the size 
of the long arms, is the only poin n which this specimen 
apparently differed gratis 5 Pe cues described above. 
ossibly the cirewmference was intended,* which would make 
the Proportions agree well with those of the other specimens. 
a letter from Mr. Harvey, dated Dec. 10, 1878, he says 
thas. ie Speaker of the House of Assembly stated to him that 
pis ee actually occurred in the description of the long arms, in 
letter from Mr. Murray, published in the American Naturalist for February, wird 
p. 122, clas ake but in that instance pecptenncesarmasnd obvious. 
