1842 in birding and ornithology

none Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|The black-winged pratincole was described by Johann Fischer von Waldheim in 1842 John MacGillivray sails as naturalist on board Fly 1831 6, despatched to survey the Torres Strait, New Guinea.Jukes J. Beete 1847 Narrative of the surveying voyage of H.M.S. Fly, commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern archipelago, during the years 1842-1846 T. & W. Boone London https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea154a Cornell University Library Lovell Augustus Reeve is elected as an associate of the Linnean Society of London and begins trading as a natural history dealer.Petit Richard E. 2007 Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865): malacological author and publisher Magnolia Press Auckland 978-1-86977-172-0 10.11646/zootaxa.1648.1.1 The first volume of Christian Ludwig Brehm's compendium on the natural history of parrots is published.Brehm Christian L. 1842 Monographie der Papageien oder vollständige Naturgeschichte aller bis jetzt bekannten Papageien mit getreuen und ausgemalten Abbildungen de Monograph on Parrots, or a complete natural history of all currently known parrots, with accurate and colored illustrations August Schmid Jena 1 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40194342 Biodiversity Heritage Library Death of Robert MudieMebius Eva-Charlotta 2023 Robert Mudie: Pioneer Naturalist and Crusading Reformer Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914 Fyfe, A. Kidd, C. Edinburgh University Press 126-136 https://electricscotland.com/history/other/robert-mudie.pdf Jules Verreaux travels to Australia to collect for the dealership "Maison Verreaux" August 2026 Martin Lichtenstein first describes the southern yellow-billed hornbill (as Buceros leucomelas) in an auction catalogue.Lichtenstein Martin 1842 Verzeichniss einer Sammlung von Säugethieren und Vögeln aus dem Kaffernlande, nebst einer Käfer-Sammlung, welche am 14ten März 1842 durch den Königl. gerichtlichen Auctions-Commissarius Rauch öffentlich meistbietend verkauft werden sollen de, la Catalog of a collection of mammals and birds from [South Africa] which, along with a beetle collection, will be sold at public auction on 14 March 1842 by Rauch, the Royal Judicial Auction Commissioner Berlin 17 http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29119841 Biodiversity Heritage Library Florent Prévost and Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs describe the undulated antpitta.August 2026 Hugh Edwin Strickland draws up the report of a committee appointed by the British Association to consider the rules of zoological nomenclature.Strickland H.E. 1878 Rules for Zoological Nomenclature John Murray London https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1878_Rules_for_Zoological_Nomenclature_F1788a.pdf This document established the Principle of Priority in zoology.Minelli Alessandro 2008 Zoological vs. botanical nomenclature: a forgotten ‘BioCode’ experiment from the times of the Strickland Code Zootaxa 1950 21 – 38 10.11646/zootaxa.1950.1.5 Gaetano Cara publishes his checklist on the birds of Sardinia.Cara Gaetano 1842 Elenco Degli Uccelli che trovansi nell'Isola di Sardegna, od Ornitologia Sarda it List of Birds Found on the Island of Sardinia, or Sardinian Ornithology S.A.R. Vittorio Emanuele Torino https://archive.org/details/elencodegliuccel00cara/page/n3/mode/2up John Cassin becomes curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.Cassin, John Smithsonian Institution Archives https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/auth_per_fbr_eacp466 John Gould describes several birds in his ongoing work, The Birds of Australia. Species Gould described in 1842 include the green pygmy goose, the painted finch, the torrent duck, the letter-winged kite and the welcome swallow.Gould John The Birds of Australia 1848 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/187975 Biodiversity Heritage Library Ongoing events William Jardine and Prideaux John Selby, with the co-operation of James Ebenezer Bicheno, publish Illustrations of ornithology under various publishers (Four volumes) in 1825 and from 1836 – 1843.August 2026 References Category:Birding and ornithology by year Category:1842 in science