. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. urrER (a) an-d lower (b) jaw or mandihlk AKCUITEUTHIS MONACHUS. (Siemsti-\l,V.) I lieduced to one tuird nat, size.) a suspicion tha(. this was actually the. same iuilividual that attacked the boat. But if not, it w; lirobably one of the Siune species, aaid of about the same ; A pair of jaws and two suckers were sent to the Smithsonian Institute by Rev. A. Mum They were taken from a Cuttle cast ashore at Bonavista Bay. He states "that it measure thirty-two feet iii length and six feet in circumference. VerriU think
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. urrER (a) an-d lower (b) jaw or mandihlk AKCUITEUTHIS MONACHUS. (Siemsti-\l,V.) I lieduced to one tuird nat, size.) a suspicion tha(. this was actually the. same iuilividual that attacked the boat. But if not, it w; lirobably one of the Siune species, aaid of about the same ; A pair of jaws and two suckers were sent to the Smithsonian Institute by Rev. A. Mum They were taken from a Cuttle cast ashore at Bonavista Bay. He states "that it measure thirty-two feet iii length and six feet in circumference. VerriU thinks this is i,iol)abl the entire length, including more or of the arras. The jaw is large and broad, but thinner than that found by Captain Campbell, and without the deep notch and angular lobe seen in that specimen. It l)robably belongs to the ArchituHthis dux of Steenstrup. On J\eie o\eihuiling a heiring-net, when they found entangled iu its folds a huge Calamary. "With i,ieit tli&cult} they succeeded ill despatching it and bringing it on shore, being compelled to cut of! Its lit id befoie thi.\ could drag it into their boat. Having purchased it of the fishermen, I in\i. taietully e\imiiied and measured it, and have had the head and surrounding ai-ms photo- graphed, as well as the body, both being at present preserved iii brine. The body is eight feet in length and five in circumference. The arms, ten in number, radiate from the top of the head. The mouth of the creature consists of a strong horny , exactly like that of a parrot in shape, and about the size of a man's fist. The eyes are placed jT ^Q^^^^^to ^^^^^ ''~^'°^^^^. °'' ]i side of the head from which the arms j^^\^ ^^^^.V^^'lCilir^^*^^* extend, and are large, dark, and prominent, the ^r^ ^^Sdto^ '" \js^ membranous sockets being four inches and a half in diameter. The two longest arms measure each twenty-four feet in length, are oidy three inches in A, MARGINAL RUNG OP SUCKER FROM ONE OF TH
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