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FIFTEEN-SPINED STICKLEBACK. 
SEA adder; 
Confounding it mth the Pipefishes or Syngnathi, to which it bears some 
resemblance in shape, and especially in the form of its snout and the 
angles of its body. Bismore in Scotland. 
Amleatus marinus major, Jonston ; Tab. 47, but I find no description. 
WiLLononBY; p. 340, and Appendix, p. 23, 
Tab. X, 13. It is remarkable thav Wil- 
loughby had never seen this common fish, 
and his figure at last was taken from a 
dry specimen in the Museum of the Royal 
Society. 
LinnjExts. Biocn; pi. 63, f. 1. 
Douqtar’s Plates, p. 45. Lacepede. 
Jentks; Manual, p. 351. 
Takrell; Br. Pishes, vol. i, p. 101. 
Fleming; Br. Animals, p. 219. 
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Spinaclda vulgaris, 
Gtfntiiee; Cat. of Br. Museum, vol. i, p. 7. 
This fish never enters fresh-water, hut it is well known on 
all the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the extreme north 
of Scotland to the Land’s End, in Cornwall; and within a 
few years it has drawn to itself special notice from its having 
been discovered to be in the habit of forming a nest for the 
security of its young, and for watching over their safety in 
it with much care, to the time when they become excluded, 
and capable of taking care of themselves among the other 
inhabitants of the waves; a discovery which solicited the more 
attention, that it was made, or at least published, before a 
similar proceeding had come to light in the habits of one or 
two more of the species of the same natural family that we 
have aheady spoken of. 
The first obscure notices of this remarkable and hitherto 
