Class IV. THREE SPINED S. BACK. 



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GENUS XXXVI. STICKLEBACK. 



Rays branchiostegous three or six. 

 Belly covered with bony plates. 

 Fin one dorsal, with several sharp spines be- 

 tween it and the head. 



La Grande Espinoche, un 



Epinard, une Artiere. Be- 



lon 328. 

 Pisciculi aculeati prius genus. 



Rondel. fluviut. 206. Gesner 



pise. 8. 

 Stickleback, Banstickle, or 



Sharpling. Wil. Ichth. 34 1 . 



Raii syn. pise. 145. 

 Gasterosteus aculeis in dorso 



tribus. Arted. synon. 80. 

 Gasterosteus aculeatus. Lin. 



syst. 48g. Gm. Lin. 1323. 



Gronov. Zooph. No. 406. 

 Spigg, Horn-fisk. Faun. Suec. 



No. 336. 

 Stichling, Stachel-fisch. Wulff 



Boruss. No. 37. 

 L'Echarde. Duliamel Tr. des 



Pesckes. ii. 5l6. sect. 3. 



tab. 26. Jig. 6. 

 L'Epinoche. Block ichth. ii. 



73. tab. 53. / 3. 

 De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



sons. iii. 296. 



1. Three 



SPINED. 



_l_ HESE are common in many of our rivers, 

 but no where in greater quantities than in the 

 fens of Lincolnshire, and some of the rivers that 

 creep out of them. At Spalding there are, once 

 in seven or eight years, amazing shoals that ap- 

 pear in the IFelland, and come up the river in 

 form of a vast column. They are supposed to 



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