1897 in birding and ornithology

Birds described in 1897 include African crimson-winged finch, bare-throated whistler, black sittella, black solitaire, bronze parotia, cream-browed white-eye, dwarf sparrowhawk, MacGregor's honeyeater, Shelley's greenbul, sulphur-breasted warbler, thick-billed heleia,

Events Death of Charles Bendire, Edward Newton, James William Abert

Publications Frank Chapman Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. Neltje Blanchan Bird Neighbours Stolzmann Oiseaux de la Ferghana d'apres les recherches faites par M. Thomas Barey (1892–1895). Par Jean Stolzmann. Bull. Soc. Imp. de Natural. Moscou, 1897, no. 1, p. 54.] 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, Hans von Berlepsch, Otto Kleinschmidt and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL The Ibis Novitates Zoologicae Ornithologische Monatsberichte Verlag von R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin.1893–1938 online Zobodat The Auk online BHL Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905 online BHL

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