1888 in birding and ornithology


 * Birds described in 1888 include bare-headed laughingthrush, Bolivian warbling finch, Borneo thrush, Damara red-billed hornbill, emperor bird-of-paradise, friendly bush warbler, Golden-backed weaver, Herald petrel, Jankowski's bunting, Palawan flycatcher, Somali bunting, Whitehead's broadbill,

Events

 * Joseph Jackson Lister serves as volunteer naturalist on the surveying voyage of HMS Egeria to the Indian Ocean.
 * Death of Hermann von Rosenberg

Publications

 * George Ernest Shelley On the Hornbills of the Ethiopian Region Ibis 1888: 47-70 online
 * Richard Bowdler Sharpe Further Descriptions of new Species of Birds dkcovered by Mr. John Whitehead on the Mounts of Kina Balu, Northern Borneo Ibis 1888 :383-396
 * Edward Bartlett "Monograph of the Weaver Birds (Ploceidae) and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches " five parts published in 1888–89

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.
 * Anton Reichenow, Jean Cabanis, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
 * Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
 * The Auk online BHL
 * The Ibis