280 
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. 
woolly hairs developed in various degrees ; and partly 
on our knowledge of the great extent of modification to 
which the domesticated races of Ruminants are uni- 
formly subject. 
The first Llama that was seen in Europe was landed 
at Middleburg in 1558, and sent as a present to the 
Emperor. A rude figure of this animal, engraved at 
Nuremberg, was copied by Gesner in his work on 
Quadrupeds. Several individuals were brought to Spain 
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ; but 
the first specimen that particularly engaged the atten- 
tion of European zoologists was that figured by Buffon. 
It was not again seen in this quarter of the globe until 
about the commencement of the present century, when 
a pair, male and female, were sent from Santa Fe de 
Bogota to St. Domingo, and thence transmitted as a 
present to Josephine, then Madame Bonaparte, at Mal- 
maison. These were represented in the Menagerie du 
Museum by Marechal, and illustrated by an excellent 
article from the pen of Baron Cuvier. Marechal's 
figures are tolerably accurate, and much superior to 
any former representation, in the works of American 
travellers or elsewhere, with the exception of that of 
Frezier, of which we shall have occasion to speak 
hereafter. 
The Brown Llama in the Society's Garden appears 
to be in all respects, except some trifling variations of 
colour, precisely similar to the specimens figured by 
Marechal. As in them, the head, neck, and legs of 
the Society's animal are covered with much shorter 
hair than the rest of the body ; a thin short mane 
extends along the middle of the neck ; and the back 
and sides are thickly clothed with fine long woolly 
hairs, becoming smooth, silky, and even shining towards 
the tips. The general colour, as in the male of Mai- 
