THE 
SPECTACLE SNAKE. 
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The figure of Coluber Naja in a preceding num¬ 
ber of this work reprefenting the fnake merely in 
an approach towards that expanded ftate which the 
neck affumes when the animal is preparing to bite, 
and having been fince favoured by Dr. Ruflel with 
an original drawing executed in India and accu¬ 
rately reprefenting the creature in its ftate of irrita¬ 
tion, I therefore embrace fo favourable an oppor¬ 
tunity of giving an additional figure, as a farther 
and clearer elucidation of the hiftory of this dange¬ 
rous reptile. 
