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[[image - pencil sketch of a cuttle fish]] probable shape [[image - pencil sketch of view of a cuttle fish]] [[image - pencil sketch of a view of a cuttle fish]] [[end page]] [[start page]] Cuttle fish found by Harrington April 26 and another by Hall a week after. Tips of arms and tail gone - 1st. Length 6 ft. 8 in end to end. Length of body 3 ft. 10 - Width of swimmers l ft 1 1/2 in Arms 26 - 30 in Arms mandibular, ends gone - cylindrical 30 in. Arms tentacular ends gone - suckers alternate in two rows - on slender peduncles with chitinous ring around the cup. Mandibles retracted into a short yellow puckered muzzle which was included in a longer plain proboscis like tube. Color whitish with red dots as usual. A raphe exists on the outside of the arms darker than the rest in color. Capt. Hall's specimen though mutilated was over 7 feet long. Beak, tongue and pieces of arms saved.