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BACTRIAN CAMEL 



Camels may be the descendants of 

 habitants of those cities. A strayed 

 itself in a feral state in Spain. 

 occur in Europe. The Camels are 

 World. The genus Lama {Auclieni 

 this family. These Camels differ 

 World by their smaller size, by the 

 hump, and by the dropping of one 



animals belonging to the in- 

 herd of Camels has estaljlished 

 Otherwise the genus does not 

 also represented in the New 

 a of many authors) l:)elongs to 

 from their allies in the Old 

 absence of the characteristic 

 premolar, the dental formula 



Flu. 148. — Bactrian Camel. Cumelus bactrianus. x -=jV 



being otherwise similar. A variety of names, Lama, Alpaca, 

 Huanaco, Vicuna, have been applied to these animals ; but it 

 appears that the names are in excess of the number of the species. 

 Mr. Thomas, who has lately inquired into the matter, will only 

 allow two, the Huanaco, Lama huanacos, of which there are two 

 domestic races, the Llama and the Alpaca, and the Vicuna, Lama 

 vicugna. They are both South American in range. Not only is 

 there a herd of escaped Camels in Spain, but the Spaniards 

 attempted to introduce and acclimatise the usefvil Lama. The first 

 Lama ever seen in Europe was brought in the year 1558 to 



