1'iIE BROWN LLAMA. 



Auehenia Llama. ILIA^ER. 

 PLATE II. 



Morescnal, Menag. du Museum Brown Llama, Gar dent 



and Menagerie of Zoo/. Soc. i. p. 250. 



THE individual which formed the subject of the 

 accompanying plate, forms part of the collection of 

 animals in the Museum of the University of Edin- 

 burgh. It stands about three feet high at the shoul- 

 der, and the whole colour of the animal is a deep 

 and rich vinous chocolate-brown, palest beneath and 

 on the inside of the legs. The hair is of a woolly 

 texture, lengthened, and with a fine thick ground of 

 shorter wool. 



The Brown Llama has been occasionally kept in 

 confinement in this country ; and a pair which served 

 for the figures of Mareschal, were kept by the Em- 

 press Josephine at Malmaison, exhibiting great do- 

 cility, with mildness and affection towards each 

 other. 



It is not yet determined how many species of 

 these animals exist. There seem to be pretty fairly 

 established the present animal, inhabiting Peru and 

 Chili ; the Vicugna, appearing at a much higher ele- 



