4 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
judicious; they were abstemious drinkers, and more water 
was thrust upon them than was requisite. A large num- 
ber of deaths took place, and cutaneous disease or scab 
spread rapidly among them. ‘Those living at Knowsley 
at the time of my arrival were suffering from it, and it 
extended to the Llamas. They were closely clipped and 
shorn of their wool: and anoimted and drenched with 
vile smelling farrier’s compounds, and rubbed and washed 
and abundantly lathered with soft soap in warm water in 
big tubs and vats in the well stored brew-house at 
Knowsley. At this treatment, offensive alike to the eyes, 
nostrils and ears, the Llamas, and especially Guanacoes, 
rebelled vigorously, violently regurgitating their cham- 
pagne bottle dozes of physic, to the disgust of all 
concerned. 
The treatment, however, which was prescribed I believe 
by some astute veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, was not 
without beneficial effect. I don’t call to mind that any of © 
the creatures died from it, on the contrary, persistent 
treatment in time cured or greatly relieved all of them; 
but they were “field days” to be remembered, and 
remembered vividly as I do to this day, but I fear only 
one other eye-witness is now living to do so. 
The Alpacas were in some instances left unshorn for a 
couple of seasons, when their fleece became very lengthy, 
and the Alpacas when clipped resembled nothing so much 
as so many hares mounted on stilts, not from their mode 
of progression, but from the length of their legs and the 
slenderness of their body. At the sale Mr. Titus Salt of 
Saltaire then rising into fame, bought one half of them at 
prices of £25 to £30 each; Prince Demidoff for his collec- 
tion at Florence, and the Director of the Zoological 
Gardens at Antwerp, took two lots at similar prices. In 
all 12 specimens bred at Knowsley, 6 males and 6 females 
