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coloured variety to be found there, while on the Flat 

 Holm there was only the ordinary chocolate-coloured 

 one, like that found in the county elsewhere.) " ^ — John 

 Storrie (Assoc. Linn. Soc), 104 Frederick Street, 

 Cardiff. 



Glamorganshire. 



" I was born on a farm about half a mile to the 

 south of the town of Llantrisant (Newpark), a place 

 which was infested with snakes and vipers. From 

 my experience of these reptiles, extending over thirty 

 years, I have found that they exist in a greater 

 number on the limestone or ironstone measures im- 

 mediately adjoining the coal-beds on the South Crop, 

 and I believe it is so on the North Crop, near Aberdare, 

 Vaynor, &c., in North Glamorgan, and the borders of 

 Breconshire. 



" It would seem to me that the snakes, &c., still 

 retain the locality of the submerged forests, where 

 they probably existed in a large state in prehistoric 

 times. The plants of this particular neighbourhood 

 differ somewhat from the plants actually growing 

 above the coal-beds— and which plants may be con- 

 ducive to animal life — upon which the snake (the 



^ The above report was sent to me for this work shortly before 

 Mr Storrie's death. This sad event will be fresh in the minds of all 

 Glamorganshire naturalists. By his death the county has lost its 

 best local naturalist, and a man of wide learning in kindred sciences. 

 He was the author of a Fauna of Eastern Glamorgan, and an 

 Associate of the Linnsean Society. — Author. 



