Wlais lV. - THREE SPINED S, BACK. 247 
Genus XXIX. ‘Three branchioftegous rays. 
The belly covered with bony 
plates. 
One dorfal fin, with feveral fharp 
{pines between it and the head. 
STICKLEBACKs 
fe ine TREE. SPIN ES. BACK. 
La Grande Efpinoche, un Epi- Gafterofteus aculeis in dorfo 
nard, une Artiere. Belon. tribus. Arted. /ynon. 80. 
328. Gailerofteus aculeatus. Lin. /j/?. 
Pifciculi aculeati prius genus. 489. Gronov. Zooph. No. 406. 
Rondel. fluviat. 206. Gefner Spige, Horn-fitk. Faun. /uece 
pife: 8. No. 336. 
Stickleblack, Banftickle, or Stichling, Stachel-fifch. Wulf: 
Sharpling. Wil. Icth. 341. Borufs. No. 37. 
Raii fyn. pife. 145+ 
HESE are common in many of our rivers, 
but no where in greater quantities than in 
the Fens of Lincolnfire, and fome of the rivers that 
creep out of them. At Spalding there are, once in 
feven or eight years, amazing fhoals that 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 wafhed out of the fens by the floods 
of feveral years, and colleéted in fome deep hole, 
*till overcharged with numbers, they are periodically 
obliged to attempt a change of place. The quan- 
tity is fo great, that they are ufed to manure the 
dand, and trials have been made to get oil from 
P@ them, 
