GUANACO. 
IHE Guanaco is one ot those species of 
Camel peculiar to the New World, The sys- 
tematic writers enumerate five species of these 
animals; butBufFon, considering them only as 
two, divides them into the Llama and the 
Pacos, and even describes them both together. 
In thus doing, it cannot be supposed that he 
has avoided confusion; when, in truth, the 
more patient investigations of systematic en- 
quirers, leave us, after all, in much doubt and 
obscurjtyc 
The five species of the South-Anierican 
Camel, in the Linnsean system, are as follows 
— 1. the Camelus Glama, or Llama; 2, the 
Camelus Huanacus, or Guanaco; 3. the Ca» 
jTielus Araucanus, or Chillihueque ; 4. the 
Camelus Vicugna, or Vkunna ; and 5. . the 
Camelus Paco, or Paces. 
In describing the Guanaco, which is alone 
our present object, we are far from certain that 
we 
