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is specially venomous where it occurs upon the peat- 
bogs, where I was bitten by one in May 1892. 
“T have never met with the ring snake in the 
district, though it must doubtless occur, as it does 
in Merionethshire. I have seen a specimen from 
Towyn.” — Prof. J. H. Salter, D.Se., University 
College, Aberystwith. 
ABERYSTWITH.—* Both the adder and the ring snake 
are common all over this county, and there are some 
of the latter species in my garden. I have the greatest 
difficulty in preventing my vardeners from killing 
them, as I cannot get them to believe in the harm- 
less nature of this snake. Neither do they appreciate 
the good these snakes do in devouring the sinall black 
slugs with which we are overrun about here. 
“On the Borth Bog there are any amount of 
adders, and they are darker in colour than the 
Scotch adder. Many years ago, on the edge of the 
bog, my gamekeeper came across a ball of them, 
which he shot at, killing six. At the same place, 
near Glandovey, I once killed an adder in the 
kitchen. It was not safe to take any dogs on the 
bog in the summer.”’—George W. Cosens, Bronpadarn, 
nr. Aberystwith., 
