GUANACO» 
hind-legs, prefers descehding the hiik, which 
it does by leaps and bounds like the buck. 
When young, it is hunted and takeb witli 
dogs : but, when old, these animals arechaced 
by the Indians, mounted on swift Horses ; v;ho 
catch them with nooses, which they fling 
with great dexterity." He adds, that ** th6y 
are easily domesticated ;" that their flesh ik 
excellent when young;" and that, in an 
adult state, it is salted, and is capable of very 
long presei vation." 
This species certainly resembles the Llama 
in manners, and in some particulars of it's ejt'- 
ternal form,as well as in the uses to which it is 
applied by the natives of the country : bwt they 
are said never to intermix, either in their wild 
or their domesticated state. Besides this, the 
d^uanaco wants the protuberance on the breast 
described in the Llamas; it ha^s a hunch on the 
back, which the Llama has not ; and the na- 
ture of the hair v^ith which they are respectively 
•eloathed is totally different* 
Molina, in hi~s Natural History of Chill, 
describes the Guanaco as carrying it's tail 
erect : 
