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CHAPTER XXNIII. 
TABLE OF AVERAGE LENGTHS OF ADDERS AND 
RING SNAKES IN COUNTIES AND DISTRICTS. 
Tae following table of the average lengths of the 
ring snake and adder in the various biological 
provinces has been prepared from the mass of 
correspondence in my _ possession relating to the 
local distribution of British serpents. The name 
of the observer in each case is appended :— 
TROPIDONOTUS NATRIX, on RING SNAKE. 
T, PENINSULA PROVINCE. 
Inches, 
Cornwall—Delabole 36 to 42 Author. 
Devon —Central about 50 Dr Dale. 
Torquay 30 Alex. Somervail. 
Kingsbridge 30 Ed. A. Elliot, M.R.C.S. 
Dartmoor 30 Rev. Gregory Bateman. 
Somerset 36 H. E. Baleh. 
Il. CHANNEL PROVINCE, 
Dorset — Wareham 30 Rev. O. P. Cambridge. 
Central 30 to 389 Rev. FP. W. Brandreth, 
