Tuesday, October 6, 2015

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De Kay calls the pine marten the American sable.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, October 6, 1855

De Kay:  James Dekay (October 12, 1792 – November 21, 1851) was an American zoologist involved with the Geological Survey of New York, who published the multi-volume Zoology of New York, or The New-York Fauna covering mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians and fish -- the nearly 2,300 animals they estimated to exist in New York. This work was illustrated by John William Hill

Hill and De Kay used a camera lucia for the rough drafts of the drawings. Hill's drawings of birds represented the first time hand-colored lithographs were used to illustrate a state bird book. De Kay collected the first specimen of a species of small brown snake on Long Island, which was named for him as Storeria dekayi. ~ Wikipedia

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