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wool is much prized for its fineness. The animal has a shmill 
whistle; it is easily domesticated. The Guanaco, by some na- 
turalists considered erroneously as the parent stock of the Llama 
and Alpaca, is also only found in the wild state; it is seen as far 
north as lat. 12°S., is very abundant, and in Jarge flocks on the 
Bolivian and Chilian Andes, and has been seen as far as the 
southern extremity of the continent. All these animals feed on 
a species of coarse, wiry grass called ichu. 
In the Peru-Bolivian Andes the Llama and Alpaca are daily 
disappearing to make room for the more useful and profitable 
breed of the common European Sheep, while as a beast of bur- 
then the Ass is everywhere taking its place.—Pentland, in Mrs. 
Somerville’s Physical Geography, u. 340, 342. 
M. G. Geoffroy has announced, on the authority of Dr. Wed- 
del, that a cross-breed between the Alpaca and Vicuna had been 
obtained, and that the mules of this cross-breed are capable of 
reproducing this newly-created species, the wool of which is re- 
presented as of a valuable quality; but Mr. Pentland has examined 
the ease referred to and the evidence adduced, and does not con- 
sider it sufficient to establish the fact. 
* Of a nearly uniform brown colour. Wild. 
: 1. Lama Vicuena. The ViIcuGNa. 
Head short. Face covered with soft hair, like the neck, and 
of the same colour. Cheeks rather paler. Hair of temples not 
longer than that of the rest of the head. Eyelashes black. Ears 
hairy, brown, blackish washed. Neck and head without any long 
hairs. Sides of the body with longer, projecting, rather rigid 
brown hairs. Hind legs without any appearance.of elongated 
warts. The hindér part of the belly and inside of the thighs 
less naked. 
Skull (adult) 9 inches long; nose short; nasal bones short, 
broad; lacrymal opening none. 
Camelus Vicugna, Molini, Chili, 277; Gmelin, S. N. 1. 171; 
Schreb. Saugth. t. 307; Lesson, Bull. Sci. Nat. Univer. 1. 
252; Zool. Journ. i. 242. . 
Lama Vicugna, Fischer, Syn. 437; Gray, Knowsley Menag. 
Laema Vicunna, Tiedem. Zool. i. 421. 
Auchenia Vicunna, Desm. Mam. 426. 
Lama Vicunna, Gray, List Osteol. B. M. 62. 
Auchenia Vicugna, Desm. 
Auchenia Vicunna, Sundevaill, Pecora, 107. 
Auchenia Vicunia, Tschudi in Wiegm. Arch. 1824, 245; Faun 
Peru, t. 17. 
