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were small, on the legs scarcely perceptible, the toe-nails 

 very small. 



Although the aggregate of distinctions produce a figure 

 very different in aspect from the Lama before described, 

 and from another individual similar to this, excepting that 

 the colours were more buff and dun (which was shewn in 

 London, and is figured under the name of Lama in the 

 work), there is still no prominent character by which they 

 might be positively separated, and we have to adduce one 

 more, which, perhaps, may be the true Guanaco of authors, 

 and yet it assimilates in some particulars most with the 

 Lama. 



This individual was kept at Oatland, and was the pro- 

 perty of Her Royal Highness the late Duchess of York. It 

 was not above three feet at the shoulder, the back was 

 slightly arched, and the tail carried close; the ears were 

 long and round at the tips ; its colour wholly white, with 

 black spots on head, neck, limbs, and belly, and larger, 

 paler spots on the sides and back ; the texture of the hair 

 was coarser, short on the head, neck, and legs, and longer 

 on the other parts. 



It may be that the specimens here noticed are the Lama, 

 either in an unreclaimed state, or at least not so completely 

 altered by domestication as those before described, and that 

 it is to these authors refer, when they represent them as de- 

 scending from the high Andes on the approach of the winter 

 months, to the middle regions, moving boldly, and bound- 

 ing with the vigour and swiftness of the Stag. They add 

 that the young are hunted with dogs and the Lazzo ; but 

 that the elder must be shot; their venison, when young^ 

 being of superior quality ; but when old, that it is then 

 either salted or jerked. 



The Paco. (C. Paco. Fred. Cuv.) The Paco, or Alpaca, 

 was first clearly described by M. Frederick Cuvier in his 

 Mam. Lithog. 1821. His specimen, kept in the gardens of 



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