MAMMALIA. PECORA. Camel. 291 



Aries moromorus. Nieremb. hift. nat. 182 — Sheep of Peru. Cieze, Peru. 232. Ovalle, Chil. 44. 

 Feuille, journ. iii. 23. Frezier, voy. i. 264. t. 22. f. A.— Cbillihueque. Clavigero, Mex. ii. 323. 



quoting Molina. 



Inhabits Cliili and Peru. — The neck, legs, head, nofe, flaccid pendulous ears, eyes, tail, and wool, 

 of this animal refemble a good deal thofe of Sheep -, but the tail is longer, and the wool much finer : 

 In other circumftances, however, it is congeneric with the Llama, Huanaco, Pacos, and Vicugna. 

 This animal was formerly employed, like the Glama and Huanaco, for carrying fmall burthens of about 

 a hundred pounds, and for tilling the ground. The wool is exceeding fine, foft, and filky, and is 

 ufed for fabricating very fine cloths ; it is fometimes white, fometimes black, brown, or alh colour- 

 ed. The flefh is very good. 



6. Vicugna. — 6. Camehis Vicugna. 7. 



The body is clothed with fine wool ; the noi'e is blunt and flat ; and the tail is flat. 

 Molina, hift. nat. Chil. 277. 



Vicuna, Vicunna, or Vicunnas. Laet, Amer. 406. Nieremb. hift. nat. 184. f. p. 185. Cieza, 

 Peru. 233. Ulloa, voy. i. 506. 525. t. 24. f. 3. — Vicognes, or Vicunas. Frez. voy. i. 266. — Ca- 

 melus Vigogne, having the whole body covered with long woolly hair. Briff. quad. 57. n. 4. 



Inhabits the higheft and moll precipitous peaks of the Andes in South America, efpecially in the 

 Chilefe provinces of Coquimbo and Copiapo. — This animal is timid, very fwift, and extremely patient 

 of cold ;■ it keeps in large herds on the mountains, and is tamed with great difficulty. The natives 

 ftretch long cords, with bits of cloth hanging to them, acrofs the gorges of the mountains, and, driving 

 the Vicugnas towards them, they are io frightened by the flutter which the pieces of cloth make in -the 

 wind, that they dare not pafs, but, huddling together, fall an eafy prey to the hunters. This fpecies 

 was likewife ufed in former times for carrying fmall burthens of fifty to feventy-five pounds; the 

 flefh is very good ; and the wool is ufed for making fine cloths and caps. The Vicugna has fome 

 refemblance to the Goat in figure, and in its tail ; but the neck is longer in proportion, the head is 

 rounded and hornlefs, the ears are fhort and erect, the nofe is fhort, and the legs are twice as long as 

 thofe of the Goat ; the wool is exceffively fine, filky, and eafily dyed, and is ufually of a rofe colour. 

 This fpecies is diftinguifhable from the Pacos, by having a more {lender body, and by the wool and 

 fnout being both of them fhorter than in that animal, with which, befides, it will not intermix. A 

 Bezoar is often found in the ftomach of the Vicugna. 



7. Pacos. — 7. Cametus Paco. 4. 



Has no protuberances on the body, which is covered with fine wool; and the fnout is 

 lengthened. 



Camelus peruvianus laniger, or Peruvian woolly Camel, called Pacos. Raj. quad. 147. Klein, 

 quad. 42. — Pacos. Hernand. Mex. 663. Laet, Amer. 405. Sm. Buff. vii. 133. Psnn. hift. of quad. 

 n. 60 — Alpagne. Frez. voy. i. 267. 



Inhabits the higheft mountains of Peru. — This fpecies refembles the Vicugna confiderably, but is 

 fmaller ; its flefh is not fo good, and its wool, though longer, is not io fine. It is gregarious like the 



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