Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, Part 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1882 - Fisheries |
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alæ algæ antheridia Architeuthis base Block Island Sound body branches branchlets breadth Brit broad bryozoa buccal membrane bush-coral Cape Cod Cape Cod Bay Capt Casco Bay caudal fin cells club coast color cortical cystocarps densely denticles diameter dorsal arms dredge edge eggs eyes fathoms feet female Figure filaments fisheries fishermen Fronds Gay Head genus Gloucester gravel Harv Harvey hatching heterocysts horny rings inches inner Island Sound Kütz large number larger length Loligo male mantle margin Mass membrane miles narrow nearly outer pair of arms paraphyses Phyc placed Plate ponds portion posterior Race Point Light River rows salmon Sand sea-feather Sept sessile sessile arms side siphon slender spawning species specimens sponges sporangia spores surface teeth temperature tentacular arms tetraspores third pair Thuret tufts upper ventral arms Verrill Vineyard Sound Wood's Holl young fish zoospores
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Page 307 - ... dozen times before one of these active and wary fishes could be caught. Sometimes after making several unsuccessful attempts one of the squids would suddenly drop to the bottom, and, resting upon the sand, would change its color to that of the sand so perfectly as to be almost invisible. In this way it would wait until the fishes came back, and when they were swimming close to or over the ambuscade, the squid, by a sudden dart, would be pretty sure to secure a fish. Ordinarily when swimming they...
Page 307 - The mackerel, however, seemed to have learned that the shallow water was the safest for them, and would hug the shore as closely as possible, so that in pursuing them many of the squids became stranded, and perished by hundreds, for when they once touch the shore they begin to pump water from their siphons with great energy, and this usually forces them farther and farther up the beach. At such times they often discharge their ink in large quantities. The attacks on the young mackerel were observed...
Page 520 - On the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, the "Beagle" one day passed through great bands of muddy water, exactly like that of a swollen river; and again, a degree south of Valparaiso, when fifty miles from the land, the same appearance was still more extensive.
Page 128 - Although as described by algologists the two species are sufficiently distinct, in practice it is difficult to say where one begins and the other ends.
Page 56 - Tufts irregular, entangled, often detached, and then forming floating strata, dull green ; filaments rather rigid, distantly branched, the lesser branches somewhat dichotomous, spreading, with very wide axils; the ramuli few, alternate or secund; articulations 3-6 times as long as broad, at first cylindrical, then elliptical, with contracted nodes.
Page 217 - ... 6 feet in length, but about 9 inches in diameter, very stout and strong. The skin and flesh were 2-25 inches thick, and reddish inside as well as out. The suction cups were all clustered together, near the extremity of the long arm, and each cup was surrounded by a serrated edge, almost like...
Page 7 - Nantucket, and it is very difficult to conceive that spores of that delicate species would survive in a very cold current, which not only must carry them outside of Cape Cod and across Massachusetts Bay, but also around to the sheltered cove at the point where Cape Ann joins the mainland at the north. If we compare the exceptional case of Goose Cove in the north with Gay Head and Montauk in the south, it seems to be the rule that wherever the water is cold enough, we meet arctic species, and wherever...
Page 244 - In form, size, and proportions the jaws resemble those of the specimen (No. 5) described above, so that the size of these two individuals must have been about the same. These jaws had been dried, and were very badly broken when received, so that only part of their dimensions could be ascertained at first, but I have recently partially repaired them, so as to study them more fully (see table under A. princeps). The total length of the upper mandible was about 105m"; tip of beak to notch, 16"™ ;...
Page 221 - In this account the length given for the "body" evidently includes the head also. This creature was probably disabled, and perhaps nearly dead, when discovered at the surface, and this seems to have been the case with most of the specimens hitherto seen living. Animals of this sort probably never float or lie quietly at the surface when in good health.
Page 235 - tail" or caudal fin (fig. 2) is said by Mr. Harvey to have been twenty-two inches across, but the preserved specimen is considerably smaller, owing, undoubtedly, to shrinkage in the brine and alcohol. It is remarkable for its peculiar spear-shaped or broad sagitate form. The posterior termination is unusually acute and the lateral lobes extend forward considerably beyond their insertion. In the preserved specimen the total length, from the anterior end of the lateral lobes to the tip of the tail...