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TINKEE. 
ten-spined stickleback. 
Piscis OMuleaiua minor, 
Gasterosteus %nmgitius, 
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WllLOTJGlIBT; p. 342. 
Linnaiits. Bloch; pi. 53, f. 4. 
Dokovan; pi. 32. Lachpede. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 219. 
Loudon’s Mag. of Nat. Hist., vol. iii, p. 332. 
Yabeell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 99. 
Jenyns; Manual, p. 350; Zoologist, vol. xiv, 
p. 5124. 
Guntiibe ; Catalogue of Fishes in the British 
Museum, vol. i, p. 6. 
There is a little fish of the family of Sticldehacks, -which 
is still smaller than the ordinary size of the thi-ee-spined 
species, so that it is almost the smallest of British fishes; hut, 
although widely dispersed, it is not so commonly met -with as 
the others. In shape it is a little more slender, and the body 
is not defended with plates, although a slight ridge near the 
tail is represented in Donovan’s plate, and referred to as of 
casual occurrence by Cuvier and other descrihers; but it is 
particularly distinguished by having nmc or ten spines (Wil- 
loughby says eleven) on the back; these spines being of 
course smaller and closer together (Fleming says more irregu- 
larly disposed) than in the three and four-spined species. As 
distinguished from the others its habits are best described by 
Mr. Newman, in the “Zoologist,” as above referred to, whose 
account we therefore for the most part copy. Another observer 
also remarks, that although less formidably or securely armed 
than most of the others, it is much the most quarrelsome of 
its family. 
Mr. Newman says: — “In the ‘Fishes of Scandinavia,’ plate 
iv, fig. 2, is figured, under the name of G. pungitius, a 
