TEN SPINED S. BACK. Class IV. 



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

 this vail flioal, by faying that a man employed by 

 the farmer to take them, has got for a confiderable 

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

 penny per bufnel. 



This fpecies feldom 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 fnarp fpines, that can be 

 faifed or deprefled at pleafure : the dorfal fin is 

 placed near the tail : the pedoral 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 fiat bony plate, 

 reaching almoft to the vent : beneath the vent is a 

 fhort fpine, and then fucceeds the anal fin. 



The tail coniills of twelve rays, and is even at 

 the end. 



The color of the back and fides is an olfve 

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

 and belly are of a bright crimfon. 



no. Ten L^ petite Efpinoche. ^elon^ Gaderofteus aculels in dorfo 



Spiked. 3-8. decern. Arted. fynon. 80. 



Pifciculi aculeati alter um ge- Gallerolleus pungitius. Lin, 



nus. Rondel. Jlii-viat. 206. Jyjr. 491. Gronov. Zooph, 



Gefner pi/c. 8. No, 405. 



Lefler Stickleback. Wil. Ictb» Benunge, Gaddfur, Gorquad. 



342. Rail Jyn. pi/c, 145. Faun, Suec. No, 337. 



THIS fpecies is much fmaller than the former, 

 and of a more (lender make. 



The 



