1888 in birding and ornithology

none Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|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 References Bird Category:Birding and ornithology by year