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LLAMA , the See also:Spanish modification of the Peruvian name of
the larger of the two domesticated members of the See also:camel-
tribe indigenous to See also:South See also:America. The llama (Lama huanacus
glama) is a domesticated derivative of the See also:wild See also:guanaco, which
has been bred as a
beast of See also:burden.
Chiefly found in
See also:southern See also:Peru, it
generally attains a larger See also:size than the guanaco, and is usually See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white or spotted with See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown or See also:black, and some-times altogether black. The following See also:account by Augustin de Zarate was given
in 1544:
" In places where
there is no See also:snow, the
natives want See also:water, and to See also:supply this they fill the skins of See also:sheep with
water and make other living sheep carry them, for, it must be re-
marked, these sheep of Peru are large enough to serve as beasts of
burden. They can carry about one See also:hundred pounds or more, and the
Spaniards used to ride them, and they would go four or five leagues a
See also:day. When they are weary they See also:lie down upon the ground, and as there
are no means of making them get up, either by beating or assisting
them, the load must of See also:necessity be taken off. When there is a
See also:man on one of them, if the beast is tired and urged to go on, he
turns his See also:head See also:round, and discharges his saliva, which has an un-
to Cape See also:York; a smaller See also:species, See also:common in New See also:Guinea and See also:Australia, is V. gouldi. They all are predaceous, powerful creatures, with a partiality for eggs. Their own eggs are laid in hollow trees, or buried in the See also:sand. The See also:young are prettily spotted with white and black ocelli, but the coloration of the adult is mostly very See also:plain.
The following families are much degraded in conformity with their, in most cases, subterranean See also:life. They are of doubtful relationships and contain each but a few species.
See also:Family 17. Pygopodidae.—Pleurodont, snake-shaped, covered with roundish, imbricating scales. Tail See also:long and brittle. Fore-limbs absent; See also:hind-limbs transformed into a pair of See also:scale-covered flaps. See also:Tongue slightly forked. Eyes functional but devoid of movable lids. Australia, See also:Tasmania and New Guinea.
Pygopus, e.g. P. lepidopus, about 2 ft. long, two-thirds belonging to the tail, distributed over the whole of Australia.
Lialis burtoni, of similar size and See also:distribution, has the hind-limbs reduced to very small, narrow appendages. The members of this family seem to See also:lead a snake-like life, not subterranean, and some are said to eat other lizards. L. jicari, from the See also:Fly See also:river, has a very snake-like See also:appearance, with a long, pointed snout like certain See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree-See also:snakes, but with an easily visible See also:ear-opening; their eyelids are reduced to a See also:ring which is composed of two or three rows of small scales. (H. F.
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