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limestone. Some years ago I captured one in a 
lady’s sunshade, coaxed it into a box, and sent it up 
to the Zoo in London, where it hved about three 
years. They average from 18 inches to a much 
ereater length. The common ring snake is here al- 
most unknown. Where I used to shoot, south of 
Abergele, the party used to kill three or four adders 
per day frequently.’—B. G. Davies-Cooke. 
Flintshire. 
“In this county, on the mosses bordering upon 
Shropshire, the adder is exceedingly numerous, and, 
Tam told, grows to a large size. Personally I have 
never seen any over 2 feet there. The ring snake 
occurs in the same district in fair numbers and 
crows large.’—H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 
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Anglesey (district round Aberffraw). 
“My E. Goshne states, in some notes of his in my 
possession, that he has seen a few specimens of the 
ring snake in this locality, and that the adder is 
pretty common. The keeper at Maelog Lake Hotel 
was bitten by an adder as he was putting his hand 
into a hole in a stone wall: he nearly lost his life 
in consequence, and was unable to do anything for 
nearly a year.’—H. E. Forrest, Shrewsbury. 
