12 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
districts where the local conditions are altogether in 
favour of the adder. Such a locality is the valley of 
the Monnow, on the South Herefordshire border. 
For a distance of eight miles in this valley I have seen 
only one ring snake in five years, during all of which 
time I have been snake-hunting there in the summer 
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Vic. 2.—Tnoviponotus Narn1x, or Rinc SNAKE (24% inches). 
Note— 
Plates on head. Markings on sides of body. 
Yellow collar. Tail tapering to fine point. 
Dark vim behind collar. Scales (ventral and dorsal). 
months. This single specimen has supplied my illus- 
tration of this species, and was caueht by one of the 
keepers at Kentchurch Court on September 26, 1898. 
I happened to drive up just as he caught it, and the 
keeper told me that he saw the snake crossing the 
drive, coming from the yard to a stream which runs 
