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adders are numerous, and the shepherd lost two of his dogs 
by being bitten. Occurs in Greywacke Crags, near the cottage, 
which is on Bothall farm. The Dye Water, apparently to 
near its head, as well as its tributaries, full of adders: have 
many notes. Two years ago I was at the ‘ Mutiny Stones’ 
above Byrecleugh, and encountered an adder in the moss 
near the footpath leading to East Lothian, on other side of 
the ridge.” Mr Archibald Hepburn, formerly of Whitting- 
hame Mains, East Lothian (now of Aldridge, near Walsall), 
informs me that in his time it “was very rarely seen in that 
part of the county, and such was the invariable report 
received from gamekeepers and other observers from the 
western boundary of the parish of Garvald, and along the 
lower and northern slopes of the Lammermoor Hills to 
Dunglass Dean by the sea.” On two or three occasions a 
reptile, supposed to be an adder, was seen by members of his 
family basking by the side of the footpath on the north side 
of Presmennan Lake, but Mr Hepburn was never successful 
in seeing it himself. It seems to me this is more likely 
to have been a slow-worm than an adder. 
As regards the north side of the Forth, I have no actual 
record for Fife, although I have been told that “ Adders” 
used to be seen on a moor in the western part of the county 
(Moss Morran?). In the detached portion ef Perthshire 
immediately to the west of Fife, Mr J. J. Dalgleish informs 
me that many were killed in 1869, on a piece of moss of 
three or four acres which was being levelled and improved 
on his estate of Westgrange. Since then he has not heard 
of any being seen in that quarter. 
In the more highland part of the valley beyond Stirling, 
they are still to be met with in many spots, but, except in a 
few localities, not plentifully. Mr Winter, keeper, Doune 
Lodge, tells me they are occasionally seen on that estate. 
He has a specimen of the ordinary type obtained there a year 
or two ago. Between Callander and Port o’ Menteith, the 
moors round about Loch Rusky are a favourite habitat, where 
1] have to thank Dr Hardy for the following further information, —‘‘On 
8rd May 1894, a young adder was found in a field on Under Bolton, near 
Haddington, during turnip-making: it was about 15 inches long.” 
