COMMON VIPER. 



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The first is the Red Viper (V. communis, var. fB of Mr. 

 Jenyns), described by my venerable friend the Rev. Thomas 

 Rackett, in the twelfth volume of the Linnean Transactions. 

 It was found by him in Cranbourne Chase in Dorsetshire, 

 in which county I have also obtained it from Poole Heath. 

 It varies much in the brightness and intensity of its colour. 



The specimen which I here figure, and from which I give 

 the following description, was taken in the neighbourhood of 

 Fordingbridge, in Hampshire, and was kindly forwarded to me 

 by Dr. Thackeray, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, by 

 whom I am informed that, of great numbers of Vipers which 



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