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long search. Examined some fresh droppings, and found it 

 contained the red bark of the cactus and coarse grass. The 

 tortoises evidently feed poorly, as the goats, which run thick 

 all over the island, keep the cactus eaten up as soon as it falls. 



June 29, 1906. — Still searching for tortoises but find no 

 signs. 



June 30, 1906. — Went in again after tortoises. No luck. 



July 2, 1906. — Beck was in after tortoises, and found one 

 small one about four miles inland from Gardner Bay. Evi- 

 dently they have been well cleaned out. 



Testudo elephantopus Harlan 



Charles Island Tortoise 



Plates 55 and 56. 



? Testudo nigra Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Uranie et Physic, Zool., 

 1824, p. 172, pi. XI; Dumeril & Bibron, Erpet Gener., II, 1835, p. 115; 

 WiEGMANN, N. Acta Leop.— Carol., XVII, 1835, p. 118, (pi. XTII; 

 Strauch, Mem. Ac. St. Petersb. (7). V. No. 7, 1862, p. 85. 



? Testudo californiana Quoy & Gaimard, Bull. Sci. Nat., I, 1824, p. 

 90, pi. XI [substitute name]. 



Testudo elephantopus Harlan, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., V, 1827, 

 p. 284, pi. — ; Harlan, Medical & Physical Researches, 1835, p. 190, pi. ; 

 Jackson, Journ. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 1837, p. 443, pis. X-XI. 



? Testudo indica Gray, Syn. Rept., 1831, p. 9 (part). 



Testudo galapagoensis Baur, Am. Nat., XXIII, Dec. 1889 [1890], p. 

 1044; GiJNTHER, Nov. Zool., IX, 1902, p. 184, pis. XVI-XXI; HellEr, 

 Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., V, 1903, p. 53; SiEbenrock, Zool. Jahrb., 

 Suppl. X, 3, 1909, p. 533. 



Type specimens. — f Testudo nigra : Paris Museum. Young. 

 Straight length about 10^ inches. Presented to M. de Frey- 

 cinet by Captain IVleek of the "Boston Eagle" while the 

 "Uranie" and "Physicien" were in the Sandwich Islands. It 

 was said to have come from California. 



Testudo elephantopus: Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. Probably No. 366. Young. Curved length 21.6 

 inches. Taken in the Galapagos Islands. 



Testudo galapagoensis: Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory. Skeleton of adult male. Curved length 45 inches. 

 Taken, probably on Charles Island, by Captain John Downes, 

 in 1833, and presented in June, 1834. 



Distribution. — This tortoise formerly was abundant ovi 

 Charles Island to which it was confined. It probably is now 

 extinct. 



