. Natural history with anecdotes: illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc . Bluefish. (JODFISH. Herring. Digitized by Microsoft® THE STICKLEBACKS. 355 in length and is furnished with spines which it uses with greateffect when fighting with its enemies. The stickle- ^^- ]°^^ Stark who experimented with someback and the sticklebacks and leeches some years ago gives thefollowing description of his experiences. On putting the leeches into the water, the sticklebackdarted round the tumbler with lively motions till it found a
. Natural history with anecdotes: illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc . Bluefish. (JODFISH. Herring. Digitized by Microsoft® THE STICKLEBACKS. 355 in length and is furnished with spines which it uses with greateffect when fighting with its enemies. The stickle- ^^- ]°^^ Stark who experimented with someback and the sticklebacks and leeches some years ago gives thefollowing description of his experiences. On putting the leeches into the water, the sticklebackdarted round the tumbler with lively motions till it found aleech detached, and in a proper situation for being the leech was very small, say about half an inch inlength, it was often swallowed at once before it reached thebottom of the vessel, but when a larger one, about an inch,or an inch and a half in length in its expanded state, was putin, and had fastened itself by its mouth to the glass, the effortsof the stickleback to seize and tear it from its hold, were inces-sant, and never failed to succeed. It darted at the loose ex-tremity, or, when both ends were fastened, at the curve in itsmiddle, seized it
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