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NATURAL HISTORY. 



it had made, the animal was so mortified at the failure and discovery of its scheme, that it dashed its 

 head against the wall and died on the spot." 



THE BACTRIAN CAMEL.* 



The Two-humped Camel is found in the regions to the east and north of the home of its One- 

 humped ally, extending as far as Pekin and Lake Baikal. It it a heavier, shorter-legged, and thicker- 

 coated species, at the same time that the feet are more adapted to a less yielding soil from their greater 

 callousness. The hair is specially abundant upon the top of the head, the arm, wrist, throat, and 

 humps. There is no variety of this species corresponding to the Dromedary One-humped Camel. 



HUANACO ATTACKED BY A PUMA. 



THE LLAMAS.f 



The Llamas, when the term is employed in its wider sense, include the American representatives 

 of the Camel tribe, none of which have any trace of the dorsal hump or humps found in their Old 

 World allies. They are mountain animals, found in the Cordilleras of Peru and Chili, in this 

 respect also differing from the desert-loving Camels, with which they agree in all important structural 

 peculiarities, including the stomach, lips, nostrils, and coat. The feet are somewhat modified in 

 accordance with the rocky nature of the mountain regions which they inhabit, the sole-pads being 

 less considerable, and almost completely divided into two hard cushions, with a long and hooked nail 

 in the front of each. 



Llamas were" found domesticated when South America was first discovered by the Spaniards, 



* Camelus bactrianus. 



t Aucftcnia. 



