PAPERS FROM THE HOPKINS STANFORD GALA- 

 PAGOS EXPEDITION, 1898-1899. 



MAMMALS OF THE GALAPAGOS ARCHIPELAGO, 

 EXCLUSIVE OF THE CETACEA. 



BY EDMUND HELLER. 



CONTENTS. 

 Plate XXIII. 



Page 



Introduction 233 



Faunal Derivation 234 



Distribution 234 



Description of Species 235 



Explanation of Plate 250 



Introduction. 



The present paper is based on a small collection of 

 mammals obtained by the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos 

 Expedition at the Galapagos Archipelago. 



The members of the expedition, Mr. Robert E. Snod- 

 grass *and the author, through the patronage of Mr. 

 Timothy Hopkins of San Francisco, and under the aus- 

 pices of the Department of Zoology of Stanford Univer- 

 sity, accompanied the sealing schooner Julia E. Whalen on 

 a ten months' cruise among the Galapagos Islands. Every 



[233] August 31, 1904. 



