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Ceph., June 11, 1971, V. 

[[underlined]] food [[/underlined]]! The fish is held in the arms, more or less diagonally. Feeding is slow and/or begins late. Most of the fish is still visible 10 mins. after capture. When feeding does start, it begins with the head.

NOTE: Arcadio says that he has been watching 2 other large squid some distance away.

Now I see that some of the medium squid have yellow patches above the eyes (These are really quite complex. Large, iridescent or "brassy", surrounded by iridescent blue and green which is not always conspicuous in the water. I shall call this pattern "Y".)

Then all the large squid disappear. A few minutes later, the medium inds. come closer to me. Most with rather exaggerated Y superimposed upon ORD. Several curl their arms upward and backward above their heads ("Curl").

[[image - drawing of squid with arms curled above head]]  

This probably is not accompanied by any "real" color change But the underside of the arms is conspicuously light.