. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. THE TEN-f^PINED ST' KLEBACK. 225 s in an aqnarium, d until they have ill be of the most :cks, for they will iibly offend them, one of their own es at my walking at he inflicted a st have snffprerl, nson, when every le but fight from id will not allow darting out and he inhabitants of or with spears in nacity of a buU- md retreat, with for shelter, the 7 of his radiant lack glows with and his belly is iant inhabitants â found. If the lerch or roach, it
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. THE TEN-f^PINED ST' KLEBACK. 225 s in an aqnarium, d until they have ill be of the most :cks, for they will iibly offend them, one of their own es at my walking at he inflicted a st have snffprerl, nson, when every le but fight from id will not allow darting out and he inhabitants of or with spears in nacity of a buU- md retreat, with for shelter, the 7 of his radiant lack glows with and his belly is iant inhabitants â found. If the lerch or roach, it antagonist loses niously after his en he, too, may ly, thf" they are heir young, as a tion of the eggs substances, and Mcted from an 3 history of the efish were bred ig them. While sunshine, others It consisted of d at the bottom r for any one to th a hole in the eggs or spawn. , but this is not the eggs to the :y. These eggs e at times seen jhing to life. I of force when 1 inch from the ', after which it The nest, when taken up, did not would be engaged for half a minute in adjusting it. separate, but hung together like a piece of wool.'^' interesting little account is, as m. Couch remarks, doubly valuable, as not beino- the work of a professed naturalist, but of an observant lover of nature, who saw some curious pbenomena and recorded them in simple and uupreton-, b,e better employed in feeding man than mamirino- his field's' An oil IS sometunes expivssed from them, and the refuse carted off to the fields but the value ot the oil seems hardly to repay the trouble of procuring it. _ Mr. Yarrell mentions a considerable number nf Stickleliacks ; but l)r Giinther in his elaborate catalogue of Acanthopterygian fishes in the British :\Iuscuin, comprises several species together, as only varieties and not dilTerent sjiecies. Eor oxamiile the (,)iAiiTKR-Ainii:D {Gasterosteiis r/ymmmis) or SMdOTH-TAiLFD Stickiehack' known l,y its four or five scaly p
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