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and the harbour of Donaghadee in Ireland (Thompson). The variety semiarmatus 

 has been recorded from Aberdeen (Sim) : St. Andrew's : is rather rare on the 

 coasts of Scotland, but has been found in the marshes below Kincardine. 

 Somersetshire (Baker) : Weymouth (Gosse). In Ireland it is also considered 

 among the rarest of the marine or semi-marine forms, but has been taken at the 

 Island of Rathlin and at Wolf hill near Belfast (Thompson). 



The inland or smooth-tailed varieties are also found in the vicinity of the sea, 

 and some have been said to have been taken in brackish and saline waters. 

 Variety gymnurus is certainly most widely distributed throughout Great Britain 

 and Ireland. It is found in the Orkneys (Baikie) : Banff (Edward) : Aberdeen 

 (Sim) : common in the Firth district (Parnell) : Berwick-on -Tweed : Isle of 

 Arran : Portpatrick (Thompson) : Isle of Wight (More, Zool. 1861, p. 7303) : 

 Weymouth (Gosse), several places round Exeter and Topsham Marshes (Parfitt), 

 Devonshire : Somersetshire (Baker) : Bristol (Couch) : Mr. Witts obtained a 

 number for me from Slaughter on the Cotteswolds, it is also found round 

 Cheltenham : while out of a hundred and forty sticklebacks taken from a trout 

 stream at Warrington, in Lancashire, about half were this form the others being 

 G. pungitius (J. Peers, Zool. 1864, p. 9145). In Ireland this is the commonest 

 form through oiit the country, and Thompson records it from the island of 

 Rathlin, Belfast, the river Bann at Toome : from county Down and Fermanagh : 

 Dublin : county Wicklow : Queen's county : and Cork. I found them also very 

 abundant at Longford. Thompson has also taken them from drains, which are 

 occasionally replenished by the tide. The variety brachycentrus has been captured 

 at Stowpool, near Lichfield (Thompson). I took some at Edgeworthstown, 

 county of Longford : while Thompson records it from Lough Neagh, Belfast, 

 Dublin, Youghal, Portarlington. The variety sjrinnlosus has been recorded from 

 the Firth of Forth, South Queensferry, Guillon Links, Dudlington Loch, and 

 Berwick-on-Tweed (Parnell) : in some numbers from near Edinburgh (Stack) : 

 Norwich (Dunn) : Teignmouth (Walcott) : common in Cornwall, ascending the 

 river in May (Cornish Fauna). In Ireland I have taken it at Edgeworthstown : 

 at Portarlington, in Queen's county, and Belfast (Thompson). 



This species in the British Isles does not appear to have been recorded over 

 3 1 inches in length. 



2. Gasterosteus pungitius, Plate LXVIII, fig. 4. 



Pisciculi aculeati alterum genus, Rondel, ii, p. 206. Pisciculus pungituris, 

 Gesncr, fol. 160a. Pisciculus aculeatus minor, Willughby, p. 342 ; Ray, p. 145. 

 Pungitii alterum genus, Aldrov. v, c. 36 ; Jonston, t. xxviii, f. a. 



Gasterosteus, no. 2, Artedi, Spec. p. 97 ; Gronov. Zooph. no. 406. Ten-spined 

 sticldelach, Pennant, Brit. Zool. (Ed. 1776) iii, p. 262, pi. 1 and (Ed. 1812) iii, 

 p. 355, pi. lxi. 



Gasterosteus pungitius, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 491 ; Bl. ii, p. 108, t. liii, f. 4 ; 

 Bl. Schn. p. 123 ; Bonnaterre, Enc. Ich. p. 137, pi. lvii, f. 225 ; Lacep. iii, p. 297 ; 

 Donovan, Brit. Fish, ii, pi. xxxii ; Shaw, Zool. iv, p. 606, pi. lxxxvii ; Pallas, 

 Zoogr. iii, p. 228 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 101 ; Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 219 ; Cuv. 

 and Val. iv, p. 506 ; Templeton, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1837 (2) i, p. 409 ; Thompson, 

 An. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1841, vii, p. 103, and Nat. Hist. Ireland, iv, p. 89 ; 

 Ekstr. Fische Morko, p. 159 ; Fries och Ekstr. p. 20, pi. iv, f . 2 ; Kroyer, Dan. 

 Fiske, i, p. 188, c. fig. ; Yarrell, Brit. Fishes (Ed. 1) i, p. 85, c. fig. (Ed. 2) i, 

 p. 99 (Ed. 3) ii, p. 91 ; Storer, Fish, of Mass. p. 32 ; Jenyns, Man. p. 350 ; Parnell, 

 Fishes Firth of Forth, p. 37, pi. xxvi, and Wern. Mem. vii, p. 197, pi. xxvi ; 

 White, Catal. Brit. Fish. p. 36; Gronov. ed Gray, p. 167; Nilss. Skan. Fauna, 

 Fiske, p. 110 ; Blanchard, Poiss. France, p. 238, c. fig. ; Gunther, Catal. i, p. 6 ; 

 Schlegel, Dieren Neder. p. 54, pi. iv, f . 5 ; H. Malmgrem, Wiegm. Arch. 1864, 

 p. 282; Collett, Norges Fiske, p. 13; Day, Jour. Linn. Soc. 1876, p. 110; 

 Houghton, British Fresh-water Fishes, p. 13, c. fig. ; Winther, Ich. Dan. Mar. 

 p. 4. 



