. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 284 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 696 it is quite probable that some of the largest ones referred to by them were Loggerheads, especially as their eggs were said to have been as large as goose-eggs, which would apply to this species better than to the others, for it has the largest eggs. In the West Indies and at Florida Keys it is sometimes of very larg
. The Bermuda islands. An account of their scenery, climate, productions, physiography, natural history and geology, with sketches of their discovery and early history, and the changes in their flora and fauna due to man. Natural history. 284 A. E. Verrill—The Bermuda Islands. 696 it is quite probable that some of the largest ones referred to by them were Loggerheads, especially as their eggs were said to have been as large as goose-eggs, which would apply to this species better than to the others, for it has the largest eggs. In the West Indies and at Florida Keys it is sometimes of very large size, specimens weighing 450 pounds having been taken not infrequently. Mr. True states that it sometimes weighs 1500 or 1600 pounds, and that one which was taken in 1871, weighing about 850 pounds, was 6 feet in length and 9 feet across the outstretched flippers ; the head was 11 inches long and 8 broad. Mr. Garman could get no positive evi- dence of any weighing over 850 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Verrill, A. E. (Addison Emery), 1839-1926. New Haven, Conn. , The author
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