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Cambridgeshire. 
I have been unable to get much information reeard- 
ing the Ophidia in this county; but my friend Dr W. 
S. Syme, of Gamlingay, says it is for a very good 
reason—viz., that the reptiles are not there. He 
tells me that both adders and ring snakes are quite 
unknown in that part of Cambridgeshire, though 
both species are found in the eastern or Fen dis- 
trict. In the neighbourhood of Gamlingay he has 
not heard of any one seeing either species during 
the last twenty years.—Author. 
“T once saw a ring snake at Wicken Fen which 
was quite 36 if not 40 inches in length, the longest 
I have ever observed.” — Frank Bouskell, F.ES., 
F.RLHLS., Market Bosworth. 
“The ring snake is the most common in this county, 
sometimes growing to a leneth of 4 feet. The adder 
is very rarely seen.”—Albert H. Waters, B.A. (Hon. 
Sec. Pract. Nat. Hist. Soc.) 
Bedfordshire. 
“The adder is the most common, and this species is 
rare and local, a few being taken from time to time on 
Rowney Warren, near Shefford, and occasionally else- 
where. Snakes are too rare in the county to vive an 
estimate of their average lengths, and I have but one 
or two records of the ring snake being taken at all. 
