296 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
Common, approaching Symonds Yat, both adders and 
ring snakes are found. 
I have seen the small red viper twice on Garway 
Hill in Herefordshire, but never Coronella austriaca. 
The late head-keeper on the Stoke Edith Park 
estate teHs me that in that part of the county the 
ring snake is more abundant than the adder, and 
averages from 24 to 5 feet. He once had a curious 
experience here, which he relates thus: ‘“ About 
six years ago, in the month of Apri, I was going 
my round, when I saw a very large ball of some- 
thing rolling down a rough piece of stony ground 
in the wood. On getting near it I shot at it, and, 
to my surprise, found that it was a bunch of snakes. 
I killed and wounded about thirty, and a_ large 
number got away.” These snakes had evidently 
been hibernating en masse when the keeper came 
across the bunch. 
See also various notes in ‘Transactions of the 
Woolhope Field Naturalists’ Club’ (1898 to 1900). 
—Author. 
Wuircnuren Distrier.—* In the district of Whit- 
chureh, near Ross, the green snake (Zropidonotus 
natrir) is the most common, and though not nearly 
so common as formerly, is still often met with. At 
one time this species used to be found in numbers 
together, especially when large manure-heaps were 
turned over. Most of the adders I have seen have 
