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FIFTEEN-SPINED STICKLEBACK. 



SEA adder; 



Confounding it with the Pipefishes or Syngnathi, to which it bears some 

 resemblance in shajDe, and especially in the form of its snout and the 

 angles of its body. Bismore in Scotland. 



Aculeatus marinus major, Jois'ston ; Tab. 47, but I find no description. 



" " " WiLLOUGHBY; p. 340, and Appendix, p. 23, 



Tab. X, 13. It is remarkable thai; "VVil- 

 loughby had never seen this common fish, 

 and his figure at last was taken from a 

 dry specimen in the Museum of the Eoyal 

 Society. 

 Gasterosteus spinacMa, Linn-^us. Bloch; pi. 53, f. 1. 



" " Donovan's Plates, p. 45. LACErEDE. 



" " Jentns; Manual, p. 351. 



" " Yakrell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 101. 



Spinacliia vulgaris, Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 219. 



" " GuNTHEK; Cat. of Br. Museum, vol. i, p. 7. 



This fish never enters fresh-water, but it is well known on 

 all the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the extreme north 

 of Scotland to the Land's End, in Cornwall; and within a 

 few years it has drawn to itself special notice from its having 

 been discovered to be in the habit of forming a nest for the 

 security of its young, and for watching over their safety in 

 it with much care, to the time when they become excluded, 

 and capable of taking care of themselves among the other 

 inhabitants of the waves; a discovery which solicited the more 

 attention, that it was made, or at least published, before a 

 similar proceeding had come to light in the habits of one or 

 two more of the species of the same natural family that we 

 have already spoken of. 



The first obscure notices of this remarkable and hitherto 



