Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 – 23 October 1905 Saint-Cast) was a French

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.Hellmayr CE (1906). "Emile Oustalet bituary. ''Ornithologische Monatsberichte'' 14 (4): 57-59
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Oustalet was born at

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two Subprefectures in F ...

, in the department of

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larvae. He was employed at the

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, where he succeeded

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as assistant-naturalist in 1873. In 1900 he succeeded

Alphonse Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who se ...

as Professor of Mammalogy. French ornithologist Émile Oustalet described a specimen from Branco as a separate species ''Passer brancoensis'' in 1883, which was recognised as the subspecies ''Passer iagoensis brancoensis'' by W. R. P. Bourne, who claimed to observe differences between Iago sparrows from different islands. He co-authored ''Les Oiseaux de la Chine'' (1877) with

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, and also wrote ''Les Oiseaux du Cambodge'' (1899). Oustalet was president of the third

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held in Paris in 1900. A species of Malagasy chameleon, '' Furcifer oustaleti'', was named in his honor by François Mocquard in 1894.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ("Oustalet", p. 198).

Selected writings

*1874 : ''Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France'', (Research of

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insect fossils from France). *1877 : with Armand David, ''Les Oiseaux de la Chine'', (The Birds of China, two volumes). *1878 : with Alphonse Milne-Edwards, ''Études sur les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des Îles Comores'', (Studies on Mammals and Birds of the

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). *1880-1881 : ''Monographie des oiseaux de la famille des mégapodiidés'', (Monograph of birds of the family

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, two parts). *1889 : ''Oiseaux dans le compte rendu de la mission scientifique du Cap Horn. 1882-1883'', (Birds in the report of the scientific mission of

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. 1882–1883). *1893 : ''La Protection des oiseaux'', (The Protection of Birds) — reprinted in 1895 & re-edited in 1900. *1895 : ''Les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des îles Mariannes'', (Mammals and Birds of the

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, two parts). *1899 : ''Oiseaux du Cambodge, du Laos, de l'Annam et du Tonkin'', (Birds of

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, Annam and

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. 1844 births 1905 deaths Scientists from Montbéliard French ornithologists French zoologists National Museum of Natural History (France) people {{ornithologist-stub

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