NORTH WALES PROVINCE. 317 



Wales (various districts). 



" The adder is particularly abundant along the 

 sandhills north of Barmouth, but out west the ring- 

 snake is comparatively rare. On the ' mosses ' in the 

 southern portion of Flintshire the adder is very 

 numerous, and I saw many there this last summer 

 (1900). One which I measured was 21 inches in 

 length." — H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 



