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Museum. In certain respects they are not unlike 

 the guanaco of to-day, though very much smaller, not 

 larger than a small Italian greyhound, and revealing 

 greater specialization in certain features of anatomical 

 structure than occurs in existing species. The guanaco 

 has not been domesticated as was its larger cousin, the 

 llama. The latter was the only beast of burden known 





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Fig. 12. Group of skeletons of Pigmy Camels (Stenomylus hitchcocki 

 Loomis) mounted in the Carnegie Museum. ^ natural size. 



by the natives in all South America at the time of the 

 Conquest, and is still used as such in the Andean region. 

 It was interesting to find in the Zoological Garden in 

 Buenos Aires a guanaco which had been broken to the 

 saddle and upon which children were riding at the time 

 of our visit. Why should not an animal like the guan- 

 aco be domesticated? Simply because the Indians 

 apparently did not make the attempt, should no effort 

 now be made to perpetuate the species in domestication? 

 Robes made of guanaco-skin are very soft and warm 



