SCOTLAND. 357 



Mr Evans then mentions that he has obtained 

 information of the occurrence of adders at the follow- 

 ing places : Harperrig, Middlerig, Harburnhead farm, 

 and " one was killed on the road near Crosswoodhill 

 toll five or six years ago." 



" In the Bathgate district I have reason to believe 

 adders were at one time not uncommon, but I have 

 not heard of any recent occurrence there. . . . 



" On the south side of the Pentlands we know that 

 the adder inhabited Harlaw Muir in the beginning of 

 the present century. On the adjoining extensive 

 moor of Auchencorth I have been told it still exists. 

 A few miles nearer West Linton it has been noted 

 by Mr T. G. Laidlaw, but very rarely, the only 

 example he has actually seen being a dead one lying 

 on the road near Coaly burn, about twenty years 

 ago. . . . 



" In Peeblesshire the viper or adder — we are told 

 in Chambers's History of that county — was then 

 (1864) common. . . . 



" One about 24 inches long was killed in Minch- 

 moor in 1892, and a large example in the schoolhouse 

 garden at Tweedsmuir in 1892. In the parish of 

 Temple, in the southern portion of Mid- Lothian, 

 and towards the foot of the Moorfoot Hills, it 

 would appear still to linger in one or two suitable 

 spots. . . . 



" Throughout the greater part of the Lammermoors 

 adders are still fairly common. They were unusually 



