1884 in birding and ornithology

The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.

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Years:	1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887

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

Worldwide

New species

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

• 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

Deaths

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

Publications

• 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