1898 in birding and ornithology


 * Birds described in 1898 include Foveaux shag, Bismarck kingfisher, carunculated fruit dove, grey-streaked honeyeater, Sula jungle flycatcher, Lord Howe golden whistler, Raso lark, Santa Marta foliage-gleaner, Sharpe's starling,

Events

 * Death of Osbert Salvin, Oskar von Riesenthal, Frederick George Waterhouse, Alfred Hart Everett,
 * Otto Finsch became curator of the bird collections at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden.

Publications
Ongoing events
 * Charles Dixon Lost and Vanishing Birds (1898) online
 * Hans Friedrich Gadow Classification of the Vertebrata, recent and extinct Black, London (1898) online BHL
 * Adolf Bernhard Meyer The Birds of Celebes (1898).online
 * Oskar Neumann, 1898 Beiträge zur Vogelfauna von Ost- und Central-Afrika. Die von mir auf meiner Expedition durch die Massai-Länder und in den Ländern am Victoria Nyansa 1892-1895 gesammelten und beobachteten Vögel. Journal für Ornithologie. Bd. 46, Nr. 2, S. 227–305.
 * 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.
 * Oskar Neumann and 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
 * Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
 * The Auk online BHL