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limestone. Some years ago I captured one in a 

 lady's sunshade, coaxed it into a box, and sent it up 

 to the Zoo in London, where it lived about three 

 years. They average from 18 inches to a much 

 greater length. The common ring snake is here al- 

 most unknown. Where I used to shoot, south of 

 Abergele, the party used to kill three or four adders 

 uer day frequently." — B. G. Davies-Cooke. 



Flintshire. 



" In this county, on the mosses bordering upon 

 Shropshire, the adder is exceedingly numerous, and, 

 I am told, grows to a large size. Personally I have 

 never seen any over 2 feet there. The ring snake 

 occurs in the same district in fair numbers and 

 grows large." — H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 



Anglesey (district round Aberffraw). 



" Mr E. Gosling states, in some notes of his in my 

 possession, that he has seen a few specimens of the 

 ring snake in this locality, and that the adder is 

 pretty common. The keeper at Maelog Lake Hotel 

 was bitten by an adder as he was putting his hand 

 into a hole in a stone wall : he nearly lost his life 

 in consequence, and was unable to do anything for 

 nearly a year." — H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 



