CHAPTER XXIV. 
V. SEVERN PROVINCE, 
33. East GLOUCESTER. 37. WORCESTER. 
34. Wrst GLOUCESTER. 38. WARWICK. 
35. Monmoura, 39. STAFFORD. 
36. Hrrerorp. 40. SHROPSHIRE. 
Gloucestershire. 
“For more than twenty years I was a constant 
observer of the reptiles of this county, and have 
had from 70 to 80 ring snakes in captivity and 
about a dozen adders. The rine snake is the more 
common of the two, and averages from 2 feet to 2 feet 
6 inches, though the old ones attain a greater length. 
The Jareest I have seen, which was killed by a boy 
near Stroud, measured 3 feet 10 inches when dead. I 
have had them both in and out of the eee, and reared 
one for its first year on tadpoles and young newts. — I 
have had other ring snakes from the same loeality 
measuring 3 feet & inches, 3 feet 7 inches, and 3 feet 
6 inches, the two latter of which I eaptured on the 
same day. One of these threw up the /vr and bones 
