REPTILIA. 



Order OPHIDIA. Fam. GOLUBRIDJE. 



COMMON SNAKE. 



Tropidonotus natrix (L.). 



In the extreme S.W. of Lakeland the Grass Snake is not 

 uncommon. Mr. W. Duckworth assures me that he can find 

 specimens any sunny morning in the neighbourhood of Ulverston, 

 and he has sent me ova of this Snake from the district. Among 

 the mountains this species becomes comparatively rare, but Mr. 

 Tom Duckworth met with single specimens at Stanley Gill, 

 Eskdale, and at Holm Rook near Gosforth. In the Eden valley, 

 as in the north of Cumberland, this Snake is extremely local, if 

 not rare. Mr. Tom Duckworth has met with specimens in the 

 Newby Cross woods, in which he also found eggs of T. natrix. 

 On single occasions lie has seen specimens at Newlands, near 

 Carleton, and Black Moss Pool near Cotehill. 



Order OPHIDIA. Fam. VIPER1DJE. 



VIPER. 



Vipera berus, L. 



The mosses in the neighbourhood of Morecambe Bay share 

 with those which fringe the Solway Firth the unenviable dis- 

 tinction of affording a tolerably safe asylum to large numbers of 

 Vipers. I have rarely visited any of our flows on a hot summer 

 day without coming across one or two individuals of the present 



