1894 in birding and ornithology

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chestnut-faced Babbler and Luzon Water Redstart Ibis 1894

• Birds described in 1894 include Junin grebe, Ecuadorian rail, Kenrick's starling, helmeted myna, leaf lorikeet, Loria's satinbird, red-throated wood rail, mountain honeyeater, streaked berrypecker, Luzon sunbird

Events

• Death of Karl Theodor Liebe, Ferdinand Heine
• The journal Aquila established by Ottó Herman.
• Charles Wallace Richmond becomes Associate Curator of Birds at the Smithsonian Institution.
• Horn expedition
• William Frederick Henry Rosenberg expedition to Colombia.

Publications

• Joseph Whitaker Notes on some Tunisian birds.Ibis 78–100, map. 1
• Hans von Berlepsch and Jean Stanislaus Stolzmann Descriptions de quelques Espèces nouvelles d'Oiseaux du Perou central. The Ibis 1894. Vol. 6 6th. series no. 23: 385–406.
• Adolf Bernhard Meyer and Lionel William Wiglesworth Ueber eine erste Sammlung von Vögeln von den Talaut Inseln Journal für Ornithologie volume 42:237–253 (1894)
• Anton Reichenow Die Vögel Deutsch-Ostafrikas Berlin:Geographische Verlagshandlung Dietrich Reimer,1894.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.
• Eugene W. Oates and William Thomas Blanford 1889–1898. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vols. I-IV. Birds.
• Anton Reichenow, Jean Cabanis, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
• The Ibis
• Ornithologische Monatsberichte Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin.1893–1938 online Zobodat
• Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905 online BHL
• The Auk online BHL