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orbits and less developed cranial ridges being due to its smaller 
size. The nasal bones are shorter and broader, and are joined 
by the premaxille. Vertebre: C 7, D 12, L 7, 8 4, C 15-20. 
Ears rather long and pointed. No dorsal hump. Feet narrow, 
the toes being more separated than in the camels, each hav- 
ing a distinct plantar pad. Tail short. Hairy covering long and 
woolly. Size (in existing forms) smaller, and general form lighter 
than in the Camels. At present and within historic times the 
Fic, 115.—Llama (Auchenia glama), from an animal living in the Gardens 
of the Zoological Society of London. 
genus is entirely confined to the western side and southernmost 
parts of South America, but fossil remains have been found in 
the caves of Brazil, in the pampas of the Argentine republic, and 
in Central and North America. 
The word Llama, sometimes spelt Lama, is the name by which 
the Peruvians designated one of a small group of closely allied 
animals, which, before the Spanish conquest of America, were the 
only domesticated hoofed mammals of the country, being kept, not 
only for their value as beasts of burden, but also for their flesh, 
hides, and wool,—in fact, supplying in the domestic economy of 
the people the place of the horse, the ox, the goat, and the sheep 
of the Old World. The word is now sometimes restricted to one 
