The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.
Worldwide
[edit]New species
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- Birds described in 1884 include Blakiston's fish owl, grey-crowned flatbill, rose-collared piha, St Kilda wren, Corsican nuthatch, golden-winged sunbird, Fischer's starling, Streak-backed antshrike, Lagden's bushshrike, Timor stubtail, brown lory, black-capped social weaver, Böhm's flycatcher
Events
[edit]- Léon Olphe-Galliard begins publishing papers on European birds.
- First meeting of International Ornithological Committee
- Gyula Madarász founds the German-language ornithological journal Zeitschrift für die gesamte Ornithologie
- Carl August Bolle becomes Chairman of Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft
- The Auk, the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS) established
Ornithologists
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884)
Publications
[edit]- Władysław Taczanowski, 1884. Ornithologie du Pérou. R. Friedländer & Sohn. Berlin. Vol 2: 566 pp.
- George Ernest Shelley On five new or little-known Species of East-African Birds, represented in Mr. H. H. Johnston's First Collection from the Kilimanjaro District Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1884:554-558
- Henry Eeles Dresser, A Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of the Bee-eaters. London: self-published.(1884–1886)
- Gustav Fischer with Anton Reichenow in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
Ongoing events
- Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman 1879–1904. Biologia Centrali-Americana . Aves
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum London,1874–98.
- The Ibis
- Members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie
References
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