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not very well marked. Its Inte is dangerous if not 
properly treated. My brother was once bitten by one 
just behind the nail on the thumb. He did little to 
it, but ran to a farmhouse, where he stayed exhausted 
until fetched away in a state of collapse, and was a 
week before being pronounced out of danger. His 
whole arm swelled to double its natural size, and was 
black and blue all over. 
“Tn my experience the smooth snake is not to be 
found here at all; at any rate | have never observed it, 
or known any one to have seen one. Its distribution 
seems to be an extremely local one.’—A. Lander, Hon, 
Sec. East Kent Nat. Hist. Soc., Canterbury. 
Surrey. 
“Personally I have seen more adders than ring 
snakes in this county, but that observation may 
be a local distribution. I have measured two as 
large as 255 inches, but these were above the usual 
length. I once took a full-grown slow-worm from 
the stomach of an adder which was taken on a 
heath near here.’—Oswald H. Latter, Charterhouse, 
Godalming, Surrey. 
FarNHAM District.—* The adder is by far the 
most common snake here, but I have not measured 
specimens. The ring snake is hardly ever found 
upon these heathlands, and althoneh IL have taken 
them within ten or twelve miles of here, I have 
