180 A. & Verrili—Cephalopods of the North Atlantic. 
he had measured a specimen cast ashore in Fortune Bay, which 
was between 42 and 48 feet in length, the body and head to- 
gether being between 12 and 13 feet, and the two long arms 
each 30 feet. This we may designate as No. 6. 
r. Honeyman, geologist of Nova Scotia, has published, in a 
Halifax paper, a statement made to him by a gentleman who 
claims to have been present at the capture of another specimen 
(No. 7) in the Straits of Belle Isle, at West St. Modent, on the 
Labrador side. ‘It was lying peacefully in the water when it 
was provoked by the push of an oar. It looked fierce and 
ejected much waiter from its funnel ; it did not seem to consider 
it necessary to discharge its sepia, as mollusca of this kind gen- 
erally do, in order to cover their escape.” * * * * “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 barrelled 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 sur- 
face, 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. 
, also refers to a statement made to him by @ 
clergyman, Rey. M. Gabriel, that two specimens (Nos. 8 and 9), 
measuring respectively 40 and 45 feet in total length, were cast 
ashore at Lamaline, on the southern coast of Newfoundland, in 
the winter of 1870-71. These may also have been of the same 
species as those described above, all of which I now refer to 
Architeuthis monachus of Steenstrup. 
Mr. Harvey also mentions, in a recent letter, that a specimen 
was cast ashore at Bonavista Bay, December, 1872, and his 
informant says that the long arms measured 32 feet in length, 
and the short arms about ten feet in length, and were “thicker 
than a man’s thigh.” The body was not measured, but he 
thinks it was about fourteen 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 length 
of the body also. It is even possible that this was the same 
specimen from which the beak and suckers described in my 
last article, as No. 4, from Bonavista Bay, were derived, for pa 
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ments, and it will, therefore, be desirable to give a special num- 
ber (11) to the former. 
Another specimen, which we may designate as No. 12, was 
cast ashore this winter, near Harbor Grace, but was destroyed 
before its value became known, and no measurements are give?. 
