Urban Neighbors Resources:
Checklist

Historical Neighbors
Street and Backyard Neighbors
Park and Green Places Neighbors
Shore and Wetlands Neighbors
Salt and Freshwater Neighbors
Tiny Neighbors
Unwelcome Neighbors
Occasional and Unexpected Neighbors


Below is a list of items on display in the exhibition Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife (October 11, 2002 - Febuary 1, 2003). The separate pages of the checklist correspond to the different sections into which the exhibition was organized.

Salt and Freshwater Neighbors

The fishes, mammals, and invertebrates to whom the city’s harbors, rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds are home.

Fishes
Cover for The New Yorker, May 5, 1980; illustration by Charles Addams
NYPL, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New Yorker Covers Collection, Gift of E. J. Kahn, Jr.

Atlantic Mackerel (Scomber scombrus)
Reproduction of color illustration by Leonard Baskin
In: L. Baskin, Miniature Natural History. First series. Vol. 1 of 4 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1983)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Atlantic Sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus) and Shortnose Sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
Reproduction of drawing by Carl Burger
From: Richard Talbot Walden, Familiar Freshwater Fishes of America (New York: Harper & Row, 1964)
NYPL, The Branch Libraries, Picture Collection

Scup (Porgy) (Stenotomus chrysops)
Chromolithograph after painting by John L. Petrie
From: William C. Harris, The Fishes of North America That Are Captured on Hook and Line (New York, 1898)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua)
Hand-colored etching after Krüger
In: Marcus Elieser Bloch, Ichthyologie ou histoire naturelle … des poissons (Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische). Translated by J. C. Thibault de Laveaux. Vol. 2 of 6 (Berlin, 1785–97)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Striped Mullet (Mugil cephalus)
Hand-colored etching by Edward Donovan from his drawing
In: E. Donovan, The Natural History of British Fishes: including scientific and general descriptions…. Vol. 1 of 5 (London, 1802–1808)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Spot (Lafayette) (Leiostomus xanthurus)
Hand-colored etching after C. J. Werner
In: Georges Cuvier, Baron, Histoire naturelle des poissons…. Vol. 5 of 22 (Paris, 1828–49)
NYPL, General Research Division

Winter Flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) (fig. 154), Yellowtail Flounder (P. ferrugineus) (fig. 155), Fourspot Flounder (Paralichthys oblongus) (fig. 156)
Hand-colored lithograph, with outlines made by camera lucida, by J. W. Hill
In: James Ellsworth DeKay, Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna…. Vol. 4 of 6 (New York State. Geological Survey. Natural History of New York. Parts 1–6) (Albany, 1842–44)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Hand-colored etching
In: William Jardine, The Natural History of Fishes of the Perch Family. The Naturalist's Library. Vol. 1. Ichthyology (Edinburgh, 1835)
NYPL, General Research Division

1. Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis), 2. Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides)
Hand-colored lithograph
In: John Edwards Holbrook, Ichthyology of South Carolina (Charleston, S.C., 1860)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias)
Hand-colored etching by Edward Donovan from his drawing
In: E. Donovan, The Natural History of British Fishes: including scientific and general descriptions…. Vol. 4 of 5 (London, 1802–1808)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Brier Skate (Raja eglanteria) and Little Skate (Leucoraja erinacea)
Reproductions of illustrations
In: Harold W. McCormick and Tom Allen, Shadows in the Sea: The Sharks, Skates and Rays (New York: Weathervane, 1963)
NYPL, General Research Division

Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
Color reproduction of illustration by W. H. Southwick
In: Thornton W. Burgess, The Burgess Seashore Book for Children (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1929)
NYPL, General Research Division

Sea Raven (Hemitripterus americanus)
Hand-colored etching after J. C. Werner
In: Georges Cuvier, Baron, Histoire naturelle des poissons…. Vol. 3/4 of 22 (Paris, 1828–49)
NYPL, General Research Division

American Shad (Alosa sapidissima)
Hand-colored etching by Edward Donovan from his drawing
In: E. Donovan, The Natural History of British Fishes: including scientific and general descriptions…. Vol. 3 of 5 (London, 1802–1808)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)
Color reproduction of illustration by Denton
From: Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York. Vol. 6 (1899/1900) (Albany: The Commission, 1901)
NYPL, The Branch Libraries, Picture Collection

Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
Hand-colored etching after Krüger
In: Marcus Elieser Bloch, Ichthyologie ou histoire naturelle … des poissons (Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische). Translated by J. C. Thibault de Laveaux. Vol. 3 of 6 (Berlin, 1785–97)
NYPL, Rare Books Division

Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)
Etching after J. C. Werner
In: Georges Cuvier, Baron, Histoire naturelle des poissons…. Vol. 3 [or 4] of 23 (Paris, 1828–49)
NYPL, General Research Division

Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus)
Color reproduction of painting by F. Angel
In: Louis Roule, Les poissons et le monde vivant des eaux…. Vol. 8 of 10 (Paris: Delagrave, 1926–)
NYPL, General Research Division

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Reproduction of photograph by François Gohier
In: Ben Wilson, Dolphins of the World (Stillwater, Minn.: Voyageur Press, 1998)
NYPL, General Research Division

Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)
Hand-colored etching after James Stewart
In: Robert Hamilton, Amphibious Carnivora. The Naturalist’s Library. Vol. 8. Mammalia (Edinburgh, 1843)
NYPL, General Research Division

Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus)
Hand-colored lithograph, with outlines made by camera lucida, after J. W. Hill
In: James Ellsworth DeKay, Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna…. Vol. 5/6 of 6 (New York State. Geological Survey. Natural History of New York. Parts 1–6) (Albany, 1842–44)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

American Lobster (Homarus americanus)
Hand-colored lithograph, with outlines made by camera lucida, after illustration by J. W. Hill
From: James Ellsworth DeKay, Zoology of New York, or the New York Fauna…. Vol. 5/6 of 6 (New York State. Geological Survey. Natural History of New York. Parts 1–6) (Albany, 1842–44)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Mantis Shrimp (Squilla empusa)
Hand-colored lithograph, with outlines made by camera lucida, by J. W. Hill
From: James Ellsworth DeKay, Zoology of New York, or the New York fauna…. Vol. 5/6 of 6 (New York State. Geological Survey. Natural History of New York. Parts 1–6) (Albany, 1842–44)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Beroe’s Comb Jellies (probably Beroe ovata)
Color reproduction of illustration by "Etzold"
In: Richard Lydekker, and others, The New Natural History. Vol. 6 (Invertebrates) of 6 (New York, 189–?)
NYPL, General Research Division

Eastern Floater (Pyganodon cataracta)
Color reproductions of illustrations by Helen Winchester (figs. 1 & 1a) and George S. Barkentin (fig. 2)
In: David L. Strayer and Kurt J. Jirka, The Pearly Mussels of New York State. New York State Museum Memoir, no. 26 (Albany: University of the State of New York, State Education Department, 1997)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Channeled Whelk (Busycotypus canaliculatus)
Reproduction of color photograph and X ray by William A. Conklin
In: W. A. Conklin, Nature’s Art: The Inner and Outer Dimensions of the Shell (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985)
NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library

Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis)
"Male mussels discharging sperm"
Reproduction of color photograph by Claude Huyghens or François Danrigal
In: Philippe Bouchet, Terre océane (Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1992)
NYPL, General Research Division

Common Periwinkle (Littorina littorea) (fig. 2), Atlantic Dogwinkle (Nucella lapillus) (fig. 4), Blue Mussel (Mytilus edulis) (fig. 8), and 7 other mollusks
Hand-colored lithograph, right-hand plate, after George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr.
In: John George Wood, The Common Objects of the Seashore: including hints for an aquarium (London, 1857)
NYPL, General Research Division