A Description of Three Hundred Animals, 1768

The ALLOCAMELUS is a Beast of Peru; it is about two Yards high, and about five Feet in length; His Head, Neck, and Ears, are like a Mule’s; but his Neck as white as a Swan’s, his other Parts of a yellowish Colour; his Body is like a Camel’s, and Feet like an Ostrich’s. It has no Horns. The Males discharge their Urine backwards.