ZOOLOGY OF NEW-YORK V5 MOLLUSCA, James E. De KAY 1842

TON AC? AND WILEY & PUTI BOSTON OULDt KENDALL & LINCOLN CARROLL&COOK PRINTERS TO THE ASSEMBLY ZOOLOGY OF NEW-YOBK OR THE NEW-YORK FAUNA COMPRISING DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE ANIMALS HITHERTO OBSERVED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK ITS BORDERS : ; WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF THOSE OCCASIONALLY FOUND NEAR AND ACCOMPANIED BY APPROPRIATE ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES PART V E DE KAY MOLLUSCA ALBANY : CARROLL AND COOK, PRINTERS TO THE ASSEMBLY 1843 The copy-right of this work is secured for the benefit of the People of the State of New-York SAMUEL YOUNG, Secretary of State Albany, 1843 WILLIAM C BOUCK, GOVERNOR OP THE STATE OF NEW-YORK I submit a continuation of a Report on the Zoology of the State Anil have the honor to he, With great respect Your obedient servant, JAMES E DE KAY INTRODUCTORY NOTICE The Mollusca, or Shells and Shell-fish as they are usually called, although several have no shells or calcareous coverings, present many objects of interest to the naturalist, and are not unimportant in their various uses to man history of American Conchology must be necessarily brief The earliest notices are derived from the labors of Garden, Michaux, and more especially The Within our own times, we are chiefly indebted to Thomas Say, who department the same eminence which he attained in every other branch of Natural History to which he directed his attention The names of Lea and of Totten, of Adams, Couthouy, Haldeman, Barnes, Binney and Gould, will always be associated in the history of the progress of American Conchology To the last named naturalist, it will be seen that I have been of Bosc occupies in this largely indebted for much valuable information derived from his History of the To the excellent cabinet of shells belonging Invertebrata of Massachusetts New- York, I have been chiefly indebted own with foreign species My obligations to to Dr J C Jay of for opportunities of comparing our Dr B for many friendly services W Budd, and important communications, will be found in the course of the work In giving a succinct account of such of the Mollusca of the State of NewYork as have fallen under my notice, I have also endeavored to render it more extensively useful, by furnishing the student in every part of the Republic with increased facilities, by directing his attention to the species already described in many scattering volumes have been obliged to correct beyond his reach In the progress of the work, I and revise so frequently what had been previously hope I have attained what I written, that at the conclusion I cannot dare to [Fauna — Part 5.] b INTRODUCTORY NOTICE IV proposed to myself at the commencement That many errors may have escaped me, I think extremely probable such are, in fact, inseparable from the nature I can only hope that what has been done may be received in a of the task " " " " proper spirit, not only by those who appear to think that nobis and mihi are the chief end and aim of natural science, but by the genuine student of ; nature The system of Cuvier has been adopted as the basis of classification, with such modifications as appeared to me necessary to render it more natural, and to correspond with general plan For the chief of these modifications, I am indebted to the excellent Manual of Sander Rang researches among my My the many volumes on both American and foreign, have been to the labors of my own countrymen that I have chiefly this subject, numerous but it is been indebted for the following pages ; Syosset, Queens County February 1, 1S44 PLATE 33 Fig 80S* Fig 3/2 Fig.30& i Fig 3/3 Fig 80S \ Fig 3// a Fig 3// Fig Fig 3/6 a i 310 Fig 3/0 S LUh aFJZno&coa A* "&rfc PLATE 34 Ftp $?« Fig SIS rif J?? Fv S23 a FigSSi rtqW Mao Ftai'f : Vi » PLATE 35 Fig 330 326 334 33 33F- Litfi of Endzcoa PLATE 36 34/ 340 339 i V >r 34S Q 343 Fig 34$ •-'*' 246 344 K *$: 34 S 34 349 85