Note 13 — Chapter II · OPHIDIAN REPTILES, OR TRUE SNAKES.
Reading edition
Although the Cobra di capella is so plentiful in India, we could never hear of one instance of a European being stung by one during a residence of more than twenty-one years in that country. They prey chiefly on Rats, the presence of which is the attraction which brings them about human habitations; and they also prey occasionally upon young chickens, and commonly upon Toads.—Ed.