Class IV. THREE SPINED S. BACK. 



?6i 



Three branchioftegous rays. 

 The belly covered with bony plates. 

 One dorfal fin, with feveral fharp fpines between it 

 and the head. 



XXVIII. 



STICKLE 

 BACK. 



La Grande Efpinoche, un 



Epinard, une Artiere. Be- 



lon, 328. 

 Pifciculi aculeati prius genus. 



Rondel, jlwviat. 206. Ge/ner 



pifc. 8. 

 Stickleback, Banftickle, or 



Sharpling. Wil. Icth. 341. 



Raiifyn. pifc. 145. 



Gafterofteus aculeis in dorfo 



tribus. Arted. fynon. 80. 

 Gafterofteus aculeatus. Lin. 

 fyft. 489. Grono^v. Zooph. 



No. 406. 

 Spigg, Horn-fifk. Faun. Suec. 



No. 336. 

 Stichling, Stachel-fifch. Wulff 



Bcrufs. No. 37. 



I29. 1 HREI 



Spin ei?. 



THESE are common in many of our rivers, 

 but no where in greater quantities than in 

 the Fens of Lincoln/hire^ and fome of the rivers 

 that creep out of them. At Spalding there are, 

 once in feven or eight years, amazing (hoals thac 

 appear in the Welland^ and come up the river in 

 form of a vaft column. They are fuppofed to be 

 the multitudes that have been warned out of the 

 fens by the floods of feveral years, and collected in 

 fome deep hole, till overcharged with numbers, 

 they are periodically obliged to attempt a change 

 of place. The quantity is fo great, that they are 

 V^kd to manure the land, and trials have been made 



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