1885 in birding and ornithology

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
Ongoing events
 * 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
 * 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