44, THE ONLY LLAMA. 
‘** You are mistaken, my dears,” said he, 
upon the present occasion, ‘* when you follow 
the common speech, and common natural 
histories, and even the ‘ List’ given you 
here, in calling both those animals ‘ Llamas,’ 
and talk, as every body is talking, of the 
‘Brown Llama,’ and the ‘ White.’ There 
is but one ‘ Llama’ in this Garden, and I 
shall ask you, presently, to show it to me. 
*“* T am afraid, Admiral,” replied Miss As- 
ton, “ that we must owe all our knowledge 
to your kindness; though we certainly have 
read so much as to lead us to suspect that 
one of them is a ‘ beast of burthen,’ and the 
other not; and that one is properly called 
the ‘ Llama,’ and the other by a different 
name.” 
** Well, then,” said the veteran voyager 
and sailor, ‘“‘ let some of us set ourselves 
down upon this bench, opposite my old ac- 
quaintances, the Maccaws, while I try to put 
the matter a little piainly for your infor- 
mation. Previously, however, I must so far 
qualify what I have said of the prevailing 
ignorance of our Zoologists, as to remark, 
that I refer exclusively to their nomencla- 
