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August von Pelzeln was an Austrian ornithologist. He was a grandson to novelist Karoline Pichler (1769-1843).
The year 1880 in birding and ornithology.
Birds described in 1872 include the Chilean flamingo, snowy egret, black-tailed crake, Cyprus warbler, Baikal bullfinch, Persian shearwater, red-fronted antpecker, Tibetan serin, Newton's parakeet and the orange fruit dove.
The year 1884 in birding and ornithology.
Birds described in 1890 include the bamboo warbler, blue-capped ifrit, red satinbird, Española cactus finch, grey-striped spurfowl, hooded cuckooshrike, Laysan finch, maroon-naped sunbird, Patagonian tinamou and Townsend's shearwater.
Birds described in 1892 include the Laysan honeycreeper, Abyssinian crimsonwing, Chatham raven, black oriole, Tullberg's woodpecker, spotted nightjar, Hose's broadbill, Bolivian earthcreeper, Chubb's cisticola, greater ground robin, streak-throated hermit, green-breasted bushshrike and the Gough moorhen.
Birds described in 1893 include Attwater's prairie chicken, the Auckland rail, blue-winged racket-tail, black-winged petrel, Laysan albatross, Chatham petrel, Mauritius night heron, Mauritius scops owl, purple-breasted sunbird, violet-throated metaltail, white-bellied tyrannulet, Whyte's barbet and the white-bellied crested flycatcher.