262 TEN SPINED S. BACK. Class IV. 



to get oil from them. A notion may be had of 

 this vaft fhoal, by faying that a man employed by 

 the farmer to take them, has got for a confiderable 

 time four millings a day by felling them at a half- 

 penny per bufhel. 

 Descrip. This fpecies feldorn reaches the length of two 

 inches : the eyes are large : the belly prominent : 

 the body near the tail fquare : the fides are covered 

 with large bony plates, placed tranfverfely. 



On the back are three fharp fpines, that can be 

 raifed or depreffed at pleafure : the dorfal fin is 

 placed near the tail : the pectoral fins are broad : 

 the ventral fins confift each of one fpine, or rather 

 plate, of unequal lengths, one being large, the 

 other fmall ; between both is a flat bony plate, 

 reaching; almoft to the vent : beneath the vent is a 

 fliort fpine, and then fucceeds the anal fin. 



The tail confiits of twelve rays, and is even ac 

 the end. 



The color of the back and fides is an olive 

 green ; the belly white ; but in fome the lower jaws 

 and belly are of a bright crimfon. 



130. Ten La petite Efpinoche. Belon, Gafterofteus aculeis in dorfo 



Spin ED. 328. decern. Arted. fynon. 80. 



Piiciculi aculeati alterum ge- Gafterofleus pungitius. Lin. 



nus. Rondel, fiwviat. 206. fyft. 491. Grono<v. Zoopb. 



Gefner pifc. 8. No. 405. 



Leffer Stickleback. WiL Icth. Benunge, Gaddfur, Gorquad. 



342. Rati fyn. pifc. 145. Faun. Suec. No. 337. 



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HIS fpecies is much fmaller than the former, 



and of a more (lender make. 



The 



