1885 in birding and ornithology

Years in birding and ornithology:	1882   1883   1884   1885   1886   1887   1888
Centuries:	18th century  ·  19th century  ·  20th century
Decades:	1850s   1860s   1870s   1880s   1890s   1900s   1910s
Years:	1882   1883   1884   1885   1886   1887   1888

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