Volume 1

The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, Robert, M.D.
Date:
[1876]
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Credit: The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that a man employed by a farmer to take them, has got, for a considerable time, four shillings a day, by selling them at a halfpenny a bushel.” (Sp. 29.) G. hrachycentrm. The Short-spined Stickleback. M. M. Cuvier and Valenciennes dis- covered this species in France, and remark that it is impossible to view it in any other light than as a distinct species; and Mr. W. Thompson, Vice-Pre- sident of the Belfast Natural History Society, than whom there can be fewer more accurate or acute observers, has obtained it frequently in the North of Ireland. The characters of this fish very much correspond with those of the leiurus, only that it is considerably larger in size, reaching to about three inches; and the spines, both dorsal and ventral, are shorter than those of its congeners. The lateral plates are the same. (Sp. 30.) G.spinuJo^m. The Four-spined Stickle- back. (Is this different from the G. tetracanthm of Cuv. and Val. ?) Dr. Stark first detected this as a British species in a ditch near Edinburgh, and read an account of it to the Wernerian Nat. Hist. Society in the year 1831; and it has since been noticed in various localities by Dr. Parnell, in the seuth of Scotland: it has likewise been detected at Teignmouth. It is very diminutive in size, and has the spines at equal distances from each other on the dorsal line. Dr. Stark found it very voracious and even more pugnacious than those with three spines. (Sp. 31.) G. pungitius. The Ten-spined Stickle-