ALLEN : mammalia: camelid^. 17 



ing of the animal resembled that of a favorite cow or horse, as, lazily 

 basking in the barnyard, it rises and advances slowly to lick the proffered 

 hand of its master. I permitted this exhibition of confidence to continue 

 until he had approached to some ten or twelve feet of me, when I showed 

 my unworthiness by exchanging a charge of small for one of solid shot, 

 which, after backing away for a few paces I discharged with such effect 

 that the beautiful animal fell lifeless almost at my feet, a victim of mis- 

 placed confidence." (Hatcher, /. c, pp. 137, 138.) 



Mr. Hatcher makes further reference to their tameness, as observed in 

 Mayer Basin, on page 200 of his " Narrative, " and again on page 266, when 

 they would approach to within a few feet while he and Mr. Peterson were 

 " skinning and dressing the carcass of their fallen comrade, often approach- 

 ing so near that we would be compelled to suspend operations and urge 

 the spectators to remove to a more respectful distance." 



Mr. Prichard's account of this deer is very full and quite in harmony 

 with the observations of Mr. Hatcher and Mr. Brown, already given, 

 including its tameness, geographical distribution, and general habits. Mr. 

 Prichard says they shed their winter coat in December. He gives a 

 colored plate of the animal in summer coat, and good half-tone illustra- 

 tions of the skull. When he first published his account of the species 

 little had been made public concerning its habits and distribution. (See 

 /. c, especially pp. 248-251.) 



Family CAMELIDyE. 

 Genus LAMA Cuvier. 



Camebts Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 1758, 65 (in part). 



LamaVx\s(i\ Natur-Syst. vierfiiss. Thiere, 1775 (f?/?/^/ Palmer, Index Gen. 

 Mamm., 1904, 363, 921). — G. Cuvier, Tabl. Elem. Hist. Nat. Anim., 

 1798, 158 (= "les Lamas") ; Le(jons d'Anat. Comp., I, tab. i, 1800. — 

 Desmarest, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, XXIV, 1804, Tabl. m^th. 31. 

 — G. Fischer, Zoognosia, III, 1814, 351. — Gray, Cat. Mamm. Br. 

 Mus., Ill, Ungulata Furcipeda, 1852, 254. — Thomas, P. Z. S., 1891, 



385. 



Lacma Tiedemann, Zool, I, 1808, 420 (= Lama G. Cuvier, 1798). 



Auchenia Illiger, Prod. Syst. Nat., 181 1, 103 [Lama G. Cuvier; also pre- 

 occupied for a genus of Coleoptera). — G. Cuvier, R^gne Anim., I, 

 1817, 251. — Wagner, Schreber's Saug., V, ii, 1838, 1788. 



