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I have a most important secret to confide to you, and a favour to ask." The hint seemed to be sufficient. The rest of the party soon retired; and Bristles and Stickleback began their confidential conclave. But another confidential conclave, of rather a more interesting nature to the parties concerned, took place three days after these occurrences in the shady walk in St James's Park.
For he takes the same colour as the rocks and sands of his home. Amid the glinting lights and shadows of his rock-pool, with a background of sand, rock, and weed, this little fish is nearly invisible. Of course it is a dodge, and a useful one, to escape the eye of the enemy! Perhaps you will not think the Spotted Goby so clever at nest-building as the Stickleback.
This is true of the fresh-water black bass and of the stickleback, where the father protects the eggs until they are hatched, and protects and cares for the young fish. In the case of the stickleback, the father even makes a nest to contain the eggs. Thus far, the process of the renewal of life is, so to speak, impersonal.
"I think they will sweep the shallow waters, there to the left, for more stickleback," replied Oliver. "They will make up a load, to sell before the heat of the day, before they set about anything else." Oliver was right. All the three repaired to the shallow water, and stood among the reeds, so as to be half hidden.
The species which construct nests for laying in are fairly numerous; the classical case of the Stickleback is always quoted, but this is not the only animal of its class to possess the secret of the manufacture of a shelter for its eggs. It makes its work about the size of a fist, takes no rest until it is completed, and is able to finish it in five or six days.
'That depends, said Geraldine, now thoroughly in the swing. Here! Hawthornden apple-tree, stickleback, goldfinch, beaver. 'The hardy Norseman's house of yore Was on the foaming wave, sang out Lance, recalling Theodore's substitute for Felix's name.
The small fry of European waters, gudgeon, bleak, minnow, loach, stickleback and bullhead, are principally of value as bait for other fish, though the first-named species gives pretty sport on fine tackle and makes a succulent dish. Small red worms are the best bait for gudgeon and minnows, a maggot or small fly for bleak, and the rest are most easily caught in a small-meshed net.
Formidable though behemot, the other monster, is, he feels insecure until he is certain that leviathan has satisfied his thirst. The only thing that can keep him in check is the stickleback, a little fish which was created for the purpose, and of which he stands in great awe. But leviathan is more than merely large and strong; he is wonderfully made besides.
He has a seaside cousin, the fifteen-spined Stickleback, who is also a nest-builder. This little fish is fairly common round our coasts, living in weedy pools by the shore, where it devours any small creature unlucky enough to come near. It is about six inches long, this sea Stickleback, with a long snout, and its body is very thin near the tail.
Polydactylism in man. Polygamy, influence of, upon sexual selection; superinduced by domestication; supposed increase of female births by. In the stickleback. Polygenists. Polynesia, prevalence of infanticide in. Polynesians, wide geographical range of; difference of stature among the; crosses of; variability of; heterogeneity of the; aversion of, to hairs on the face.
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