Class IV. THREE SPINED S. BACK* 353 



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 syst. 489. Gm. Lin. 1323. *• Three 



Epinard, une Artiere. Be- Gronov. Zooph. No. 406. 



Ion 328. Spigg, Horn-fisk. Faun. Suec. 

 Pisciculi aculeati prius genus. No. 336. 



Rondel. Jiuviat. 206. Gesner Stichling, Stachel-fisch; Wulff 



pise, 8. Boruss. No. 37- 



Stickleback, Banstickle, or L'Echarde. Duhamel Tr. des 



Sharpling. Wil.lchth. 341. Pesches. ii. 5l6. sect. 3. 



Raii syn. pise. 145. tab. 26. Jig. 6. \ 



Gasterosteus aculeis in dorso L'Epinoche. Block ichth. ii. 



tribus. Arted. synon. 80. 73- tab. 53. /. 3. 



Gasterosteus aculeatus. Lin. De la Cepede Hist, des Pois- 



sons. iii. 296. 



XHESE 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 JVelland, and -come up the river in 

 form of a vast column. They are supposed to 



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