342 BRITISH SERPENTS. 
Lancashire. 
“The adder is the most common snake in this 
county, the average length being from 21 to 2+ inches, 
Tn this district it is specially found on Clougha Pike, 
Holker Moss, and at Witherslack in the Mosses. 
Gamekeepers state that they have had several dogs 
killed through adder-bites on these Mosses.”—Arthur 
Stanley, Lancaster (Hon. See. Field Nat. Soc.) 
Various Localities. 
“The ring snake is the most common snake in 
Delamere (Cheshire), the adder being seldom met 
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with. I once captured a ring snake 53 inches long 
in Delamere Forest. 
“On the bogland at Witherslack, near Grange-over- 
Sands, I have often been cautioned by the old men of 
the district to ‘mind the add-worms, which they said 
were plentiful. 
“The ring snake is still very plentiful near Harlech 
and Aberdaron, on Cardigan Bay, and near the latter 
place one day I watched a blackbird pursuing a good- 
sized blindworm. I captured the blindworm in my 
buttertly-net and placed it in a large bottle of eyanide 
of potassium, and carried it in the bottle a mile anda 
half. On taking it out of the bottle at the village inn 
the reptile at once showed activity and drove several 
farmers from the room as effectively as a rattlesnake 
eould have done.’—Mr Robinson, £5 St John Street, 
Longsieht, Manchester, 
