1885 in birding and ornithology

none Bird species new to science described in the thumb|230px|red-naped bushshrike Ibis 1885 Birds described in 1885 include semicollared flycatcher, Palawan hornbill, blue bird-of-paradise, lesser lophorina, brown sicklebill, Comoros cuckooshrike, Cozumel vireo, Indochinese green magpie, three-streaked tchagra, Lawes's parotia, Turquoise-winged parrotlet Events Death of Samuel Cabot III, Nikolai Severtzov William Brewster becomes curator of mammals and birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. John Whitehead begins exploring in Malacca, North Borneo, Java, and Palawan. Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905 online BHL commences. Publications Bradford Torrey Birds in the Bush Otto Finsch and Adolf Bernhard Meyer, 1885. Vögel von Neu Guinea, zumeist aus der Alpen-region am südostabhange des Owen-Stanley-Gebirges (Hufeisengebirge 7000-8000' hoch), gesammelt von Karl Hunstein. I. Paradiseidae. Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie 2: 369–391. online Leonhard Stejneger ,1885. Results of ornithological explorations in the Commander Islands and in Kamtschatka. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 1–382, 8 figs, 8 pls. online Robert Ridgway Description of some new species of birds from Cozumel Island, Yucatán Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 1885 3: 2–24.online Osbert Salvin A List of the Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana.Ibis 1885 3 (5) :291-306 online Richard Bowdler Sharpe A Monograph of the Hirundinidae. (2 volumes). (with Claude Wilmot Wyatt). London: Printed for the authors. 1885–1894. (Vol. 1, Vol. 2) 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. Cabanis, Anton Reichenow, Hans von Berlepsch, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL The Auk online BHL The Ibis References Bird Category:Birding and ornithology by year