title: 1880 in birding and ornithology
text: # 1880 in birding and ornithology
  
  The year 1880 in birding and ornithology.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Death of Étienne Mulsant
  * William Brewster appointed assistant in charge of the collection of birds and mammals in the Boston Society of Natural History
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Osbert Salvin and Frederick DuCane Godman, 1880 On the birds of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia The Ibis ( 4 ). Band 4, 1880, S. 169–178
  * Philip Sclater and Osbert Salvin 1880 On the Birds collected by Mr. C. Buckley in Eastern Equador. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Pt.2: 155–160.
  * Othniel Charles Marsh Odontornithes: a monograph on the extinct toothed birds of North America; with thirty-four plates and forty woodcuts, Washington :Govt. print. off.,1880.
  * Charles B. Cory Birds of the Bahama islands; containing many birds new to the islands, and a number of undescribed winter plumages of North American species (Boston, 1880).
  
  Ongoing events
  
  * John Gould The birds of Asia 1850-83 7 vols. 530 plates, Artists: J. Gould, H. C. Richter, W. Hart and J. Wolf; Lithographers:H. C. Richter and W. Hart
  * Henry Eeles Dresser and Richard Bowdler Sharpe A History of the Birds of Europe, Including all the Species Inhabiting the Western Palearctic Region.Taylor & Francis of Fleet Street, London
  * José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage Ornithologie d'Angola. 2 volumes, 1877–1881.
  * 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.
  * Gustav Hartlaub , Jean Cabanis, Otto Finsch and other members of the German Ornithologists' Society in Journal für Ornithologie online BHL
  * The Ibis
  