PACO, 



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nity of killing with their slings as many as they 

 please. 



This circumstance of being terrified, and as it 

 were fascinated, by a cord drawn across any par- 

 ticular space, is, however, by no means peculiar 

 to this animal, but takes place, as is well known, 

 in several of the Deer tribe, and particularly in 

 the common Fallow Deer, which may be easily 

 confined in a similar manner. 



PACO. 



Camelus Paco. C. tophis nullis, corpore lanato, rostra oblo?igG, 



Lin. Syst. Nat, Gmel. p. 171. 

 Purplish-brown woolly Gamely white beneath, with oblong snout 

 Paco. Laet, amer. p» 405. 



Paco. Alpaco. M0lin.Chil.2g6. Buff. i^.pl.i6. 

 Pacos. Pennant Quadr. i.p. 137, 



This species is said to be entirely confined to 

 Peru, where the natives keep vast flocks of them 

 for the sake of the wool, of which they prepare 

 cloth of silky lustre and softness. Like the Vi- 

 cuna, it is found in mountainous districts m large 

 herds, but is never observed to associate with those 

 animals. It is of a more robust make * than the 

 Vicuna, and is covered with very long wool, 

 which is, in the wild animal, of a dull purple co- 



^ Gmelin, in his edition of the Systema Naturae, says it is smal- 

 ler ; but I am not without my suspicions that the Vicugna of Gmelin 

 is the Pacos of Pennant, and vice versd, 



V. II. p, II. 17 



