title: 1891 in birding and ornithology
text: # 1891 in birding and ornithology
  
  ## Events
  
  * Peary expedition to Greenland
  * Joseph joins the British Ornithologists' Union
  * Death of August von Pelzeln
  * Giacomo Damiani joins forces with Enrico Giglioli
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Ernst Hartert Katalog der Vogelsammlung in Museum der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt a.M.,Knauer,1891. online
  * Tommaso Salvadori, 1891. Catalogue of birds in the British Museum. Vol. 20. British Museum, London.
  * Valentin Bianchi 1891 The birds of Gansu expedition of G.N. Potanin 1884–1887 (with Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky)
  * Richard Bowdler Sharpe Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-birds. (2 volumes). London: Henry Sotheran. 1891–1898. online BHL
  
  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, and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
  * The Ibis
  * Ornis; internationale Zeitschrift für die gesammte Ornithologie.Vienna 1885-1905online BHL
  * The Auk online BHL
  