VICUGNA. 
This animal, the Camelus Vicugna, of Lin- 
naeus and Gmelin ; is the Ovis Chilensis of 
Dampier's, Wood's, and Narborough's Voy- 
ages ; the Vicunna, Alpaques, of Frezier's 
and of Ulloa's ; the Vigogne, of MoHna ; the 
Camelus Laniger, of Klein ; the Camelus Vi- 
gogne, of Brisson; and supposed, by BufFon, 
to be the Pacos in it's wild state. By other 
naturalists, it is called the Vicuna, or Vicunna. 
Pennant, who uses the latter appellation, 
says that the body is covered with long and 
very fine wool, of the colour of dried roses; 
the belly being white. In a tame state, he ob- 
serves, the colour varies. It is shaped like the 
Llama, but is much less ; the leg of one seen, by 
him was about the size of that of a Buck. 
These animals, like the Llama, inhabit the 
highest and most precipitous peaks of the Andes, 
in South America ; and, more particularlv, 
they abound in the Chiiese provinces of Co- 
quembo and Copiapo. The Vicugnas, how- 
ever, 
