210 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
which Joseph Boadle presented to the Whitehaven 
Museum. ‘Instead of being grey and black, it is a 
dull ferruginous red, and the zigzag markings are a 
dark mahogany colour.’ This animal had been caught 
near Rig House, Dean, West Cumberland” (recorded 
in the ‘Whitehaven Times, December 3, 1874).4 
But as a matter of fact, the distribution of the small 
“red viper is much wider in England than has hitherto 
been recognised, and not the least interesting of the 
results of my effort to obtain a complete account of 
the county distribution of our serpents has been the 
discovery that this species is to be found in at least 
fifteen English counties, five of which have already 
been mentioned. I have myself observed it twice 
in Herefordshire, both times in the same locality— 
namely, on Garway Hill, once in 1898 and once in 
1900. I have also taken one specimen in Monmouth- 
shire, on August 1, 1900; this latter speciinen 
measured 94 inches, and was captured on the summit 
of the Graig Hill. TIT showed it at the annual 
meeting of the Woolhope Field) Naturalists’ Club 
in 1900. I have also taken one 
a male—in Central 
Dorset (Buckland Newton) as mentioned. A. refer- 
ence to the county reports in this book will show that 
it also occurs in the following additional counties : 
Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, West Sussex, 
Northumberland, Durham, Dorset, Devon. In most 
1 From this description the specimen might have been a female 
adder, the size not being given, nor the sex, 
