286 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
The smooth snake does not oceur, as far as TI know.’ 
—J. Steele Elliott, Hillerest, Clent, Worcestershire. 
Huntingdonshire. 
The ring snake is the common snake of this county, 
but I have been unable to obtain any reliable figures 
as to its average length. 
Captain J. A. Vipan tells me that the adder used 
to occur in Homle Fen, but he has not seen one there 
for a great many years, neither has he observed this 
species in any other locality in the county. There is 
no record of Coronclla austriaea having oceurred.— 
Author. 
Northamptonshire. 
“The ring snake is the most common snake in the 
county, averaging 35 inches in leneth. Adders are 
searce, but used to be common at Brampton Wood, 
near Desborouch, The keeper there tells me that he 
often killed them there when he first went to the 
wood, which at that time had been allowed to grow 
wild for some years; but for the last six years he 
has not seen one. T got a laree ring snake from 
Milton Park, Peterborough, on June 30, 1898, measur- 
ing) inches, the largest [have seen. [It was dropped 
by a heron, which was tlying over some trees near 
their nesting-place. In this park ring snakes are 
very common.’ —Charles East) Wright, Woodside, 
Kettering. 
