56 CLASS MAMMALIA. 



suming that the animals shewn under this name were the 

 real Guanaco,or that, if such, they form a distinct species, 

 their form and character is sufficiently different, to render 

 a separate description most advisable. The specimens ex- 

 hibited in America and London were in height something 

 more than four feet ; and their necks being proportionably 

 longer than the Lamas, the top of their heads was about 

 six feet from the ground. The head was longer and the nose 

 and lips much smaller and more delicate than in the 

 former animal ; the ears longer, more moveable and 

 pointed; the forehead covered with a sort of brush of 

 standing woolly hair. The back was arched, and the tail 

 carried erect or even reversed up onthe back ; the abdomen, 

 drawn up high under the pelvis, gave an air of weakness to 

 that part; the diameter of the rump shorter, and the limbs 

 finer and more elegantly formed than in the preceding. Iji 

 attitude, the head was carried upon a neck perfectly ver- 

 tical, shewing an inaptitude to look round or on either side ; 

 for when this was required, the whole animal turned.. The 

 individual more particularly observed shewed attachment 

 to his keeper ; he was jealous, would lay the ears back, 

 stamp with the fore, kick with the hind feet, spit, or rather 

 squirt saliva at those who gave him umbrage, or who gave 

 potatoes or apples to other animals in his- .presence. He 

 would occasionally carry his keeper, and run for a couple 

 of miles with such velocity as to distance horses at a round 

 trot. Hie head was white, with a rusty spot on the nose 

 and some gray about the cheeks ; the neck, covered with a 

 short wool, was buff in front, whitish on the sides, and 

 gray behind. The breast and shoulders were covered with 

 loose and soft white hair; the back, hinder shoulder, 

 sides, and rump, with shortish woolly hairs of a dried rose- 

 leaf colour ; the legs, sternum, belly, and region around the 

 anus, dun ; the tail, black above, was edged with longish 

 white hair, and naked below. The callosities on the limbs 



