' THE CAMEL OF THE ANDES " 



dim obscurities of the wood. The domestic cow realizes 

 that man is a better nurse for her offspring than she 

 herself, and takes no pains to hide her offspring from him. 

 When the herd moves to and fro it moves in the way 

 of wild gregarious animals ; the young are placed in 

 the centre and an old and experienced patriarchal bull 

 leads the van. It appears that the name " aurochs," 

 often applied to the European bison, a creature exactly 

 like the American bison, now getting equally rare, 

 but by which the prairies were once blackened, should be 

 retained for the urus ; the two names are plainly the 

 same in origin. The Bos bonasus of the forests of 

 Lithuania and of the Caucasus should be called by its 

 name of Wisent, which is the same word as bison. 

 It may occasionally be seen at the Zoo. So, too, the 

 American bison and a host of other bo vines. 



THE LAMA 



The " gawd-forsaken oont " of the East and of 

 Africa is represented in the New World by the lamas, 

 huanacos, alpacas, and vicunas. These diverse names 

 really apply to only two species of animal. We may 

 term the wild stock df the Lama huanacos, huanacos, 

 and the two domesticated forms of the same, lamas 

 and alpacas. The vicuna is a distinct species, Lama 

 vicugna. It is unnecessary to anyone who has once 

 seen the beast to inform him that the lama is a camel. 

 It has the same smile compounded of superciliousness, 

 cruelty, and stupidity that characterises its humpy 

 relative of the Old World. It is treacherous and 

 ferocious ; and a vindictive male possessed by the 

 Zoological Society was a little bit terrifying as it pursued 

 within its enclosure the steps of the passing visitor 

 and made, fortunately fruitless, endeavours to leap the 

 iron railings that secured the public. For a lama has 

 many weapons of offence when it is really annoyed, 



