THE CAMB On dit ANDES ” 
dim obscurities of the wood. The domestic cow realizes 
that man is a better nurse for her offspring than she 
herself, and takes no pains to hide her offspring from him. 
When the herd moves to and fro it moves in the way 
of wild gregarious animals; the young are placed in 
the centre and an old and experienced patriarchal bull 
leads the van. It appears that the name “ aurochs,”’ 
often applied to the European bison, a creature exactly _ 
dike the American bison, now getting equally rare, 
but by which the prairies were once blackened, should be 
retained for the urus; the two names are plainly the 
same in origin. The Bos bonasus of the forests of 
Lithuania and of the Caucasus should be called by its 
name of Wisent, which is the same word as bison. — 
It may occasionally be seen at the Zoo. So, too, the 
American bison and a host of other bovines. 
THE LAMA 
The “ gawd-forsaken oont’ of the East and of 
Africa is represented in the New World by the lamas, 
huanacos, alpacas, and vicufias. These diverse names 
really apply to only two species of animal. We may 
term the wild stock of the Lama huanacos, huanacos, 
and the two domesticated forms of the same, lamas 
and alpacas. The vicufia is a distinct species, Lama 
vicugna. It is unnecessary to anyone who has once 
seen the beast to inform him that the lama is a camel. 
It has the same smile compounded of superciliousness, 
cruelty, and stupidity that characterises its humpy 
relative of the Old World. It is treacherous and 
ferocious; and a vindictive male possessed by the 
Zoological Society was a little bit terrifying as it pursued 
within its enclosure the steps of the passing visitor 
and made, fortunately fruitless, endeavours to leap the 
iron railings that secured the public. Fora lama has 
many weapons of offence when it is really annoyed, 
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