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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Walton, The Alpaca. CUL-DAR205.7.107. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.

William Walton, The alpaca: Its naturalization in the British Isles considered as a national benefit, and as an object of immediate utility. Edinburgh and London.

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The Alpaca by W. Walton 1844

p 29 — The llama & Alpaca often breed together, but offspring beautiful & quite sterile & hence called "machorras" or "machurgas" — These Hybrid Produced also in England at Ld Derby's (Q)

Extermination of Llama & Alpacas very surprising

[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 442.]

p 53. Dict Class. d' Histoire Naturelle verb. Chameau describes hybrids produced in Spain

[Desmoulins, Antoine. Article 'Chameau', in Dict, class. hist. nat., vol. 3, Paris, 1823. IX, 83.]

p 103 Mr Stevenson had one female Vicuña, & it became 6 months pregnant by Llama, which is the largest species — Died

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