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Cumberland.”—Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A., ‘ Fauna 
of Lakeland, p. Ixxviii. 
North of England. 
“The viper is pretty common in Westmoreland, 
Cumberland, and those parts of Lancashire included 
in the Lake District. This is especially the ease in 
the low-lying lands in the neighbourhood of More- 
canbe Bay and the Solway Firth. The largest living 
adder I have sent to me for inspection measured 28} 
inches, and was found in the locality of Staveley in 
the summer of 1890. I have records of adders 
mneasuring 294, 29, and 31 inches. The average in 
Lakeland I should put at about 17 inches. 
“The ring snake is rather rare in Westmoreland, 
but fairly common in suitable places in Cumberland 
and in the Furness district.’—G. W. Murdoch, Miln- 
thorpe, Westmoreland. 
Lake District. 
“One Sunday in August 1897 Mr Clarke, who has 
charge of the wood above Chapel Hill, Langdale, told 
me he had just killed a snake which he had seen 
once before in the spring, but on that occasion it 
eluded him. Although he had looked many times 
in the interval for it, he had never seen it again till 
this day on which he killed it. I walked up to his 
cottage in the wood, and there he had an adder 19 
inches long. Mr Clarke had been in charge of this 
