1884 in birding and ornithology

Years in birding and ornithology

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See also 1883 in birding and ornithology, main events of 1884 and 1885 in birding and ornithology

The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.

## Worldwide

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### New species

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Lagden's bush-shrike Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1884

* 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

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* 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

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#### Deaths

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* Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884)

## Publications

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* 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

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