1892 in birding and ornithology
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Birds described in 1892 include the Laysan honeycreeper, Abyssinian crimsonwing, Chatham raven, black oriole, Tullberg's woodpecker, spotted nightjar, Hose's broadbill, Bolivian earthcreeper, Chubb's cisticola, greater ground robin, streak-throated hermit, green-breasted bushshrike and the Gough moorhen.
Events
Foundation of the British Ornithologists' Club
Death of Henry Walter Bates
Ernst Hartert becomes curator of birds at the Tring Museum
First issue of Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club online
Publications
Henry Ogg Forbes (1892). "Preliminary notice of additions to the extinct Avifauna of New Zealand. (Abstract.)". Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 24: 185–189.
Adolphe Boucard (1892–1895). Genera of Humming Birds: Being Also a Complete Monograph of These Birds. London.
Charles Dixon (1892).
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