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a bushel’ were found at Alverstone, and after a gun 
had been discharged into the heap, seventeen heads 
were counted. 
SS Tropidonotus natrie or Ring Snalke.—Universally 
distributed, but said to be less common in the Isle 
of Wight than the viper. 
“Coronclla austriaca or Smooth Snake.—Locally dis- 
tributed: found in the New Forest and in the north-east 
of the county. Absent from the island. One was caught 
in my garden on July 6, 1894. 9 Mr G. B. Corbin, of 
Ringwood, reported one from jis neighbourhood in 
Aucust 1897. One was taken in August 1883 on 
the hills between Yately and Camberley, on the 
borders of Hants and Surrey. Its usual colour is 
silvery-grey.’—Rev. J. E. Kelsall, Milton, Lymington 
(Proceedings of Hampshire Field Club, vol. i., Part 
IIT., 1898). 
“Tn the area worked hy the Portsmouth and Gos- 
port Nat. Sci. Soe. (which extends from the Tichfield 
river on the west northward until it reaches Wick- 
ham, thence eastward following the boundary of the 
Fareham district down to Langstone Harbour, and 
round the shore to the Tichfield river again) the 
adder is the most common snake found. In_ this 
area the average length is from 18 to 20 inches, but 
one measuring 22 inches was taken at Stokes Bay 
in April 1882. Near the seashore there is much 
common land covered with gorse and bracken, whilst 
in the northern part of the district there are exten- 
