for the rough drafts of the drawings. Hill's drawings of birds for De Kay's Zoology of New York were significant in that they 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 (Holbrook, 1836). De Kay died at Oyster Bay in 1851. Historical species named after him include Dipleura dekayi, Eurypterus dekayi, Eutrephoceras dekayi, Mosasaurus dekayi, and Trimerus dekayi. Gallery Images from Zoology of New York, Part II, Birds Images from Zoology of New York, Part V, Mollusca and Part VI, Crustacea See also :Category:Taxa named by James Ellsworth De Kay References Notes Bibliography Aldrich, Michele L., “New York State Natural History Survey 1836-1842, A Chapter in the History of American Science”. Paleontological Research Institution, 2000. New York. De Kay, James Ellsworth (“Anonymous”). “Sketches of Turkey in 1831 and 1832, by An American”. J. & J. Harper, 1833. New York. De Kay, James Ellsworth and Hill, J. W. (illustrator) Zoology of New York, or the New-York Fauna, Part II, Birds. J. F. Schreiber, 1844. Gratacap, L.P. “Formative Museum Period,” Science, A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Advancement of Science, Publishing the Official Notes and Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New Series. Volume XIV. No 344. (August 2, 1901). p. 168-176. Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln (editor) and A.C.D (author otherwise unidentified). “The Greeks and the Turks,” The North American Magazine.” New Series. Vol. III, No. XIV. (December 1833). p. 73-80. Wilson, James Grant and Fiske, John. “Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, Vol. 2”. D. Appleton and Company, 1887. New York. Ze'evi, Dror. “Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900”. University of California Press, 2006. External links Bird Images: De Kay, James E. & Hill, J.W. High resolution, scanned images of all 141 plates from Zoology, Part 2 (Birds) at Old Book Art. Public Domain. De Kay, James E. Zoology of New York, or the New-York Fauna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the animals... This work was published from 1842-1844 as part of the series Natural History of New-York, which was commissioned in 1836 by the New York State legislature to provide for a geological and natural history survey of New York State. It addressed both recent and fossil mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mollusks