290 MAMMALIA. PECORA. Camel. 



cated in South America, and employed for carrying burthens, efpecially from the mines, through the 

 rugged mountains, having a firm", fure-footed, grave ftep. The fur is long and foft, of a white or 

 yellowifh colour, /potted with black and brown ; the body is about fix feet long, and the hunch or 

 protuberance on the breaft is faid, by fome authors, to be conftantly moiftened with a yellowifh oil, 

 or clammy fluid. It fights its enemies with the feet and teeth, and, when angry, difcharges its fali- 

 va, fometimes to the diftance of ten paces, which, if it falls on the fkin, raifes an itching reddiih fpot. 

 The voice is a kind of neighing. It procreates * about the end of fummer; the female has two teats 

 ' goes five or fix months with young, and brings one at a birth, feldom two. It can cany about a hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds, travelling for three or four days inceflantly, at the rate of three German miles 

 a day, and then requires a whole day to reft ; like the Camel, it kneels down to be loaded or un- 

 loaded,, and will not rife if overburthened, neither will blows force it to quicken its pace; it lies down 

 when wearied ; its temper is very ftubborn, and it can only be forced to proceed by comprefiintr the 

 tefticles. Its flefh is equally good with our beft mutton, and is very fat, when well fed, efpecially im- 

 mediately below the fkin. 



Dr Gmelin queftions whether* this may not be the fame animal with the Camel, altered by climate 

 to a fmaller fize ; but, if there were no other reafon, the different times of geftation are fufficient to 

 . mark a totally different fpecies ; the neck is lefs bent, the back is almoft even, the tail is more ele- 

 gant, the pace is quicker, the legs are handfomer, and the hair, which is fpun into worfted, is fofter 

 and longer, than in the Camel. — T. 



62J 4. Guanaco. — 4. Camelus Huanacus. 5. 



The body is hairy, the back protuberant, and the tail is carried ere£L Molin. hift. nat. 

 Chil. 281. 



Pernichcatl. Fernand. Mex. 11. — Guanaco, or Huanacu. Laet, Amer. 406. Ovalle, Chil. 44. 

 Cieza, Peru. 233. Ulloa, voy. i. 366. t. 24. f. 5. Hawkefworth, voy. i. 148. 



Inhabits the Andes in South America, and comes down into the lower parts of Peru and Chili in 

 winter. — This fpecies refembles the Glama in manners and many particulars of its external form, and 

 in the ufes to which it is applied by the natives of the country ; but thefe animals never intermix, 

 either in the wild or domefticated ftate : Befides this, the Guanaco wants the protuberance on the 

 breaft defcribed- in the Glama ; it has a hunch on the back, which the former animal has not ; its 

 hind legs are likewife confiderably fhorter in proportion, and its gait is a kind of bounding or hobbling, 

 on account of the inequality between its hind and fore legs. The body and head meafure about /even 

 feet long, and near four feet three inches high ; the tail refembles that of a Stag, and the ears are 

 like thofe of the Horfe ; the upper parts of the body are yellow, and the under parts pure white. 

 The flefh of the younger, animals is very good eating, but that of the older ones is rather hard and 

 infipid, unlefs when falted.. 



628 5. Chillihueque. — 5. Camelus arcucanus. 6. 



The body is covered with wool ; the back has no protuberance ; the upper part of the 

 nofe is much curved; and the tail is pendulous. Molina, hift. nat. Chil. 279. 



Aries 



• * Mari penis longus, tenuis, retroflexus, fub finem aeftatis coit fere furens; foeminae vulva angufta. 



