1895 in birding and ornithology

• Birds described in 1895 include alder flycatcher, banded whiteface, black-capped catbird, Cocos flycatcher, frill-necked monarch, dark-eared myza, Gillett's lark, Grey-headed honeyeater, trilling tailorbird

Events

• Manchester Museum acquires the bird skin collection of Henry Eeles Dresser it includes Palaearctic bird species, bee-eaters and rollers that formed the basis of Dresser's books'
• Death of Henry Seebohm, Janos Frivaldszky,

Publications

• Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar Unsere Baltischen Singvögel Reval, Franz Kluge, 1895
• Frederick Webb Headley The Structure and Life of Birds, London and New York, Macmillan and Co. (1895)
• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, 1895. A glossary of Greek birds. Oxford U. P.
• Alexandre Noël Charles Acloque 1895–1900. Faune de France, contenant la description des espèces indigènes. Paris online (pars)
• Ernst Hartert On some Birds from the Congo Region.Novitates Zoologicae ii. p. 55.

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

References