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who, in his Natural History of Chili, separated also the 
Guanaco, and added a fifth species, the Hueque or 
Chilian Sheep of the older authors. Gmelin, Shaw, 
and almost every subsequent compiler, have adopted 
these five species without examination, giving to them 
such synonyms as they could pick up almost indiscri- 
minately from the writers on the natural history of 
America, and thus creating a mass of confusion which 
it would be both vain and useless to attempt to unravel. 
It seems to be the general opinion among the leading 
writers of the present day that this subdivision has 
been carried to too great an extent. M. F. Cuvier 
limits the number of species to three, the Llama and 
the Paco, figured in his work, and the Vicugna, a 
representation of which was given by Buffon in his 
sixth Supplementary Volume. In the rejection of Mo- 
lina's species, the Guanaco and the Hueque, we think 
that he is fully justified by the imperfect accounts 
furnished by that writer, and by his confessed want of 
materials for completing the history of the animals of 
which he treats. In the present instance it does not 
appear that he was personally acquainted with the 
Peruvian species from which he professed to separate 
his own. We should indeed have little hesitation in 
proceeding still further; for we are strongly inclined 
to agree with Baron Cuvier in regarding the Paco as a 
mere variety of the Llama, with the wool more amply 
developed ; and in considering the Vicugna as the only 
animal of the group that deserves to be specifically 
distinguished from the latter. Our reasons for adopt- 
ing this opinion it is unnecessary to offer in detail on 
the present occasion. They are founded partly on the 
observation of numerous specimens, varying in colour 
through difterent shades of white, brown, and black, or 
a mixture of two of these shades, and having the long 
