Plate JO 



FAMILY TESTUDINID/E 



GIANT TORTOISE From the Galapagos Islands. 



Testudo vicina. 



Weight, two hundred and seventy pounds. 



GIANT TORTOISE From the Aldabra Islands. 

 Testudo elephantina. 

 The small tortoise beneath the foreleg of the big specimen is of 

 ordinary size, having a shell 8 inches long. Weight of big tortoise, 

 two li"'idred and thirty-tive pounds. 



