Eugene William Oates (31 December 184516 November 1911) was an English naturalist and a civil engineer who worked on road projects in Burma. Oates was born in

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and educated in Bath, England. For a time he attended Sydney College, Bath and later under private tutors. He was a civil servant in the Public Works Department in

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and

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from 1867 to 1899. He retired to England, where he compiled a catalogue of the birds' eggs in the

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, and served as secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1898 to 1901. He died in

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of Indian snake, ''

Typhlops oatesii ''Argyrophis oatesii'', also known commonly as the Andaman Island worm snake or Oates's blind snake, is a species of harmless snake in the family Typhlopidae. The species is endemic to the Andaman Islands. There are no subspecies that are reco ...

'',Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Oates, E.W.", p. 193). a Burmese frog, ''

Humerana oatesii ''Humerana oatesii'' is a species of frog in the family Ranidae. It is endemic to Burma. This species is only known from type series collected from "near Toungoo" in the Pegu Range. The specific name ''oatesii'' honours Eugene W. Oates, Engli ...

'', and seven species of birds are named in his honor.

Publications

*Oates, E.W. (1883). ''A handbook to the birds of British Burmah including those found in the adjoining state of Karennee.'' Vol II. London: R.H. Porter. *Oates, E.W. (1888). "On the Indian and Burmese Scorpions of the Genus ''Isometrus'', with Description of Three new Species". ''

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'' 3: 244–250. *Oates, E.W. (1889-1890). ''

The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma ''The Fauna of British India'' (short title) with long titles including ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma'', and ''The Fauna of British India Including the Remainder of the Oriental Region'' is a series of scientific books th ...

. Birds.—Vol. I & II.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers). *Oates, E.W. (1899). ''A manual of the Game Birds of India.'' Vol. II, p. 139-146. Bombay: Cambridge.

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* * 1845 births 1911 deaths British ornithologists {{UK-ornithologist-stub