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

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

who contributed greatly to ornithology. Oustalet was born at

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

, in the department of

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larvae. He was employed at the

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History ( ; abbr. MNHN) is the national natural history museum of France and a of higher education part of Sorbonne University. The main museum, with four galleries, is located in Paris, France, within the Ja ...

, where he succeeded

Jules Verreaux Jules Pierre Verreaux (24 August 1807 – 7 September 1873) was a French botanist and ornithologist and a professional collector of and trader in natural history specimens. He was the brother of Édouard Verreaux and nephew of Pierre Antoine Delal ...

as assistant-naturalist in 1875. 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 ...

as Professor of Mammalogy. Dodo painting jardin des plantes

Oustalet became especially interested in birds after the museum received new specimens from Indo-China and Africa. He took a special interest in the birds of China and co-authored ''Les Oiseaux de la Chine'' (1877) with

Armand David Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist from the French Basque Country. Several species, such as Père David's deer ...

, and also wrote ''Les Oiseaux du Cambodge'' (1899). He 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. Oustalet attended the

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at Vienna (1884), Budapest (1891), London (1905) and presided in Paris (1900). The duck species '' Anas oustaleti'' was named after him. A species of Malagasy chameleon, '' Furcifer oustaleti'', was named in his honor by

François Mocquard François Mocquard (27 October 1834 – 19 March 1917) was a French herpetologist born in Leffond, Haute-Saône. In 1860 he was named ''préparateur du physique'' after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree at the Faculty of Besançon. Subseque ...

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). Oustalet died at St. Cast (Cotes-du-Nord) after several weeks of illness. The funeral was held in Montbeliard (Doubs).

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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