I found one cannibal scorpion quietly devouring another.) At one time of the year these birds go in flocks, at another in pairs, their cry is very loud and singular, like the neighing of the guanaco.
The guanaco, or wild llama, is the characteristic quadruped of the plains of Patagonia; it is the South American representative of the camel of the East.

It is an elegant animal in a state of nature, with a long slender neck and fine legs.

It is very common over the whole of the temperate parts of the continent, as far south as the islands near Cape Horn.

It generally lives in small herds of from half a dozen to thirty in each; but on the banks of the St.Cruz we saw one herd which must have contained at least five hundred.
They are generally wild and extremely wary.

Mr.Stokes told me that he one day saw through a glass a herd of these animals which evidently had been frightened, and were running away at full speed, although their distance was so great that he could not distinguish them with his naked eye.