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: ‘taken at Newfoundland may also frequent the northern coas 
New England, or the deep water, off shore, for we really know 
_ Very little of the active free-swimming animals that inhabit the 
ae Pe — and cannot be taken with the dredge. 
_ smaller brown spots. The upper surface of the head is deeply col- 
ored by the brown spots, which are here larger, darker; and 
"seen on our shores, their proper homes being probably. farther 
` north, or in mid-ocean. 
coast ( (see AMER Narurauist, vol. vii, p. 394, July, 1873 
174 CUTTLE-FISHES. 
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100™"; of third pair, 100™"; of extensile arms, SE of the 
ventral pair, 90™™, 
The length of time required for these squids to become full zro 
is unknown, as well as the duration of their lives, but as several 
distinct sizes were taken in the pounds, and those of each school 
were of about the same size, it is probable that they are several 
years in attaining their full size. A specimen, recently caught, at 
Eastport, Maine, was pale bluish-white, with green, blue and yel- 
low iridescence on the sides and lower surface; the whole body 
was more or less thickly covered with small, unequal, circular, 
orange-brown and dark brown spots, having crenulate margins; 
these spots are continually changing in size, from mere points, 
when they are nearly black, to spots. 0:04 to 0°06 of an inch in 
diameter, when they are pale orange-brown, becoming lighter col- 
ored as they expand. On the lower sides the spots are more 
scattered, but the intervals are generally less than the diameter 
of the spots. On the upper side the spots are much crowded and 
lie in different planes, with the edges often overlapping, and thus 
increasing the variety of the tints. Along the middle of the back 
the ground-color is pale flesh-color, with a median dorsal band, _ x 
along which the spots are tinged with green, in fine specks. Above ss 
each eye there is a broad lunate spot of light purplish red, with’ = 
more crowded than elsewhere, and situated in several strata. The 
arms and fins are colored like the body, except that the spots spr 
pear to be smaller. ‘The suckers are pure white. The €y m are 
dark blue-black, surrounded by an iridescent border. 
The remaining species are comparatively rare, and are seldom — 
Of the eight-armed group of Cephalopods, only one species; the 
ctopus Bairdii V., has hitherto been found on the New Eng! It 
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