THE GALAPAGOS TORTOISES. 295 
MEASUREMENTS. 
(In inches). 
Straight Straight Curved Curved 
M. C. Z. length width length width Height 
11063 164 1b 193 192 ( 
11068 25 184 29 30 123 
11083 29 153 24 253 
11084 16 112 183 182 
11081 21 15 25 24% 103 
11082 21 15 25 25% 11 
11089 282 21 354 33 
Number 110638, Plate 38, fig. 1, 2, was received in exchange from the Bost. 
Soc. Nat. Hist. Numbers 11081-11084, and 11089 were purchased of F. B. 
Webster. 
Plate 37, fig. 2, 3, are outlines from Harlan and fig. 1 is a lateral sketch 
from No. 11063. Plate 38, fig. 3, is a view of the sternum of 7’. microphyes. Plate 
39 gives the outlines of Giinther’s figures of the type of his Testudo ephippium. 
Plate 40 the outlines of Giinther’s figures of Testudo abingdoni from Pinta 
(Abingdon), Plate 41 represents a 25 inch specimen (M. C. Z. 11068) brought 
by Baur from Pinzon (Duncan). Plate 42, fig. 2, 3, presents outlines of a cast 
by Webster of a specimen from Pinzon, and figure 1, a dorsal view of another 
cast by Webster from Isabela (Albemarle) said to be from 7’. beckz. 
The type of 7. ephipprwm Ginther, 1875, was a specimen in the Museum 
of Science and Art, Edinburgh. Nothing was said to be known of its history, 
but Porter’s, 1822, description of the tortoises of Charles Island (Santa Maria) 
applied so well the author had no doubt the type came from that island. In 
1877 in the Gigantic Tortoises this is repeated on p. 81, but on p. 11 and on 
Plate 39 it is ascribed without question to Indefatigable (Santa Cruz). It 
appears to have been the only tortoise from the Archipelago in the Edinburgh 
Museum; had there been another it would not have escaped mention. Baur, 
1889, found that Captain Basil Hall had visited Abingdon (Pinta) (the only 
island of the group landed upon) in January, 1822, and remarked, in his Journal, 
concerning the tortoises ‘‘we took some on board, which lived for many months, 
but none of them survived the cold weather off Cape Horn. I preserved one in 
a cask of spirits, and it may now be seen in the Museum of the College at Edin- 
burgh: it is about medium size.” The measurements given are those of a 
specimen of about the same size as the type of 7. ephippium. Baur took the 
