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1888 in birding and ornithology

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Years in birding and ornithology:	1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891

Illustration of Parus cypriotes by John Gerrard Keulemans in The Ibis 1888

Birds described in 1888 include bare-headed laughingthrush, Bolivian warbling finch, Borneo thrush, Damara red-billed hornbill, emperor bird-of-paradise, friendly bush warbler, Golden-backed weaver, Herald petrel, Jankowski's bunting, Palawan flycatcher, Somali bunting, Whitehead's broadbill,

Events

Joseph Jackson Lister serves as volunteer naturalist on the surveying voyage of HMS Egeria to the Indian Ocean.
Death of Hermann von Rosenberg

Publications

George Ernest Shelley On the Hornbills of the Ethiopian Region Ibis 1888: 47-70 online
Richard Bowdler Sharpe Further Descriptions of new Species of Birds dkcovered by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mounts of Kina Balu, Northern Borneo Ibis 1888 :383-396
Edward Bartlett "Monograph of the Weaver Birds (Ploceidae) and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches " five parts published in 1888–89

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.
Anton Reichenow, Jean Cabanis, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
The Auk online BHL
The Ibis

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