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BACTRIAN CAMEL 



Camels may be the descendants of 

 habitants of those cities. A strayed 

 itself in a feral state in Spain, 

 occur in Eru-ope. The Camels are 

 World. The genus Lama (Aucheni 

 this family. These Camels differ 

 World by their smaller size, by the 

 hump, and by the dropping of one 



animals belonging to the iu- 

 herd of Camels has established 

 Otherwise the genus does not 

 also represented in the New 

 a of many authors) belongs to 

 from their allies in the Old 

 absence of the characteristic 

 premolar, the dental formula 



Fig. 148. — Bactrian Camel. Camelus iactrianus. 



being otherwise similar. A variety of names. Lama, Alpaca, 

 Huanaco, Vicuna, have been applied to these animals ; but it 

 appears that the names are in excess of the number of the species. 

 Mr. Thomas, who has lately inquired into the matter, will only 

 allow two, the Huanaco, Lama hiianacos, of which there are two 

 domestic races, the Llama and the Alpaca, and the Vicuna, Lama 

 vicugna. They are both South American in range. Not only is 

 there a herd of escaped Camels in Spain, but the Spaniards 

 attempted to introduce and acclimatise the useful Lama. The first 

 Lama ever seen in Europe was brought in the year 1558 to 



