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the young brood, and the Hespestes or Ichneumon, 

 which will attack and master the largest cobra. 



Cobra, the ordinary name by which Europeans 

 in India designate the naga genus of venomous 

 Colubrine snakes of the family of Elapidae. When 

 the cobra rises in play or for amusement, it spreads 

 out the skin of the neck from which it gets the 

 Spanish name of cobra di capello; in English, "the 

 hooded snake." Us bite is certain death. Only 

 about half the varieties have spectacles. 



