56 GUANACO AND LLAMA. 
either to receive that animal as a domesti- 
cated Guanaco, or to suppose it a separate 
species; but yet, admitting the possibility, 
that the original list of native species, though 
not so numerous as five, nor even as four, was 
really three, and not ¢wo only (which might 
be made the Guanaco and Hueco, of Molina, 
without his three additions,) and that the 
Hueco (assumed as a Wild Llama,) sur- 
vives only in the domesticated breed. I 
will only add, that the story which has 
been spread, that the saliva of these ani- 
mals has something venomous in its quality, 
is unfounded. ‘The practice of spitting when 
offended is one of the points of similarity be- 
tween the Guanaco and the Llama, and, per- 
haps, between both and the Vigonia. But, as 
respecting the Guanaco, the author of the 
‘ Menageries’ assures us, that he has received 
a plentiful share of the saliva in his face, 
without experiencing any of those blisters 
which travellers used to describe with great 
minuteness ;° and, with respect to the Llama, 
which was probably the animal alluded to by 
travellers, Zarate, while he describes one of 
the occasions upon which that particular ani- 
