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THE LLAMA, 
and its eyes are proportionably larger, darker? 
and more prominent. The legs and the ears 
are occasionally handsomely spotted. Th® 
neck, back, flanks, and breast, are gen®' 
rally of a yellowish brown ; the head mostly 
gray, darker on the nose, and of a rusty colour' 
behind the ears. 
The alpacos is often seen among the naosl 
solitary fastnesses in the snowy mountains 
Peru, feeding in herds of one or two hundred- 
These herds have a sentinel posted on soiw^ 
elevated station, to announce the approach 
an enemy. Garcilasso says, that the mal®® 
remain on the high cliffs, while the female® 
feed in the bottoms and valleys. On descry' 
ing the hunters, they snort, and, if pursued^ 
collect the females together, and drive tbei^ 
on before. When in danger they desccP 
from the heights which they frequent for thci*^ 
favourite food, and seek safety in the wood^ 
and thickets of the plains. 
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