354 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
“The adders are often to be seen in April coiled 
up together basking in the sun. They are found 
chietly on the cliffs, on the moors, and in the brakes ; 
not being seen so frequently in the heather and ling 
localities, though adders are often found at the Lizard 
(i.c., the geoeraphical Lizard). 
“The grass or ring snake is not so common, and 
the smooth snake unrecorded, in this county.”—C. M. 
Rogers, Perranwell, Cornwall. 
Devonshire. 
“T should certainly say that the adder was more 
common than the ring snake in this county. — Its 
average length is 18 inches, but one has been killed 
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measure 309 inches. The ring snake averages 30 
inches in length, and one in the Torquay Natural 
Mistory Museum measures 3 feet 8 inches. 
“The sinooth snake is not known here.”’—Alex. 
Somervail, Torquay Museum. 
“The adder is the more common near the moors, 
the ring snake in the more cultivated districts. The 
adder averages about a foot, the ring snake about 
50 inches, but it is not at all unusual to find ring 
snakes ieasuring 5 feet. The smooth snake does 
not occur, to my knowledge. 
“The number of snakes seen, or their traees in the 
dusty roads, varies very greatly from year to year: 
the drier the summer the more the snakes vet about.” 
Kdmund A. Eliot, MARCS., Kinesbridge, Devon. 
“ Adders, ring snakes, and lizards are all plentiful 
