294 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
I had captured some adders in a wood close to his 
house, as he had never seen any there, although he 
had lived there many years. The behet that the 
adder-mother swallows her young is prevalent 
Fia. 47.—Mare Apper (24 inches), Ewyas Haroun, 
HEREFORDSHIRE. 
throughout the county, and I must have had the 
incident described to me by quite fifty people who 
say they witnessed it. But TP am still waiting for 
the specimen with the youny in the gullet. 
But the ring snake does occur in Hereford, more 
especially in some of the large woods in the middle 
