Crossword-Solution: VICUNA 6 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

During the day we saw several guanacos, and the track of the closely-allied species, the Vicuna: this latter animal is pre-eminently alpine in its habits; it seldom descends much below the limit of perpetual snow, and therefore haunts even a more lofty and sterile situation than the guanaco.

Then there is the wild vicuna, the fleece of which is made into a sort of wool, after which a certain kind of cloth is named.

Abramson, to whom I brought letters of recommendation from Vicuna, and whose reception of us was polite even to extravagance.

This series of elevated plains forms a dreary, uninhabited stretch of country, “frigid, barren, and desolate, where life is only represented by the hardy vicuna and the condor.”3 This is the uninhabited portion of Peru.

Ledger, however, who has closely studied these animals both in Peru and during their exportation to Australia, and who has made many experiments on their propagation, adduces arguments[62] which seem to me conclusive, that the llama is the domesticated descendant of the guanaco, and the alpaca of the vicuna.