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brown. One specimen, a male, was about four feet high ; 

 a female, considerably lower, had the same distribution of 

 colours, with the addition of a dark spot on the lips, 

 several smaller on the ears and on the fore-legs. They 

 were considered as Alpacos, but their superior size, and the 

 presence of callosities on the limbs, if this distinction be 

 permanent, places them among the species of Lama. The 

 male was accurately figured by Mr. Agasse, and the female, 

 which was shewn afterwards by Mr. Howitt*. 



The head of the Lama is thick in proportion to the 

 length, the lips tumid, the ears rather rounded at the tips, 

 and the forehead covered with short close hair. The legs 

 are stout, the back straight or slightly hollow (perhaps 

 from early imposition of burdens). The diameter of the 

 ham, from the hip to the tail, rather broad, and his feet 

 spread. His manners are gentle and confident, and shew- 

 ing but little vivacity; but his carriage is graceful, and 

 seen in front, with the splendid white clothing of the throat 

 and breast, beautiful. These observations on the pro- 

 portions of the animal are, however, relative, and should 

 be borne in mind when compared with other individuals 

 exhibited as the Guanaco. 



The Guanaco (Camelus Huanacus. Gmel.) Without as- 



* This figure is engraved in the work, and by mistake named 

 Alpaco, because the specimens were exhibited as such. On com- 

 paring the figures of Gesner and Schreber, it is evidently the same 

 animal which they have represented as the Guanaco, and we have 

 here a striking example of the confusion which reigns on this sub- 

 ject. If the animals here given be not Lamas, but Guanacos, it 

 follows that those described here as Guanacos must be another 

 species or strongly-marked variety, not so much of Lama as per- 

 haps of Chilihuque, or a species as yet unknown. The hair 

 ascribed to my lamas is a mere different state of their fleece. 

 Gesner representing his at the renovation of it, and mine at its 

 greatest length, taking Gesner's Allocamelus as represented in 

 Shaw's Zoology. 



