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THE LLAMA (LAMA LAMA) AND ALPACA (L. PACOS). We know 

 from geological evidence that creatures of the camel kind first 

 came into existence in North America. Thence some of them 

 migrated into the Old World, passing over a land area that once 

 existed in the North Atlantic (or via land uniting Alaska and 



Fig. 1166. Kirghiz with Bactrian Camels (Camehts Bactrianus} 



Asia), while others made their way into South America. From 

 the former Camels took origin, and from the latter the cameline 

 forms of South America, with which we are now concerned. 

 All animals of the sort having become extinct in the intervening 

 area, and submergence of the connecting land having isolated 

 the Old World from the New, the group has come to be distri- 

 buted in a discontinuous manner. 



The domesticated camelines of South America are the Llama 



