With both sites found to be suitable, over 290 adders, 400 grass snakes, 17, 000 common lizards and 6, 000 slow worms have been carefully captured by hand and transported in grass-lined boxes to the county.
On the other hand, if you guess that the rustle in the grass is the wind but it turns out to be a hungry lion, your mistake is more serious: The lion was real but you thought it wasn't (a "false negative").
One day in mid-December, there was a knock at the kitchen-house door and he found Chance Poxley standing in the tall dead grass, wearing a small tweed fedora, shading his eyes with one hand.