Émile Oustalet
Émile oustalet ( born August 24, 1844 in Montbéliard as Jean -Frédéric Émile oustalet; † 23 October 1905 Saint-Cast -le- Guildo, Cotes -du -Nord) was a French zoologist.
Biography
1874 oustalet wrote his doctoral thesis entitled " Recherches sur les insectes fossil of terrains tertiaires de la France ", in which he described the tertiary insect fauna mainly of Auvergne and around Aix -en- Provence. He was national d' histoire naturelle employed by the Muséum, 1873 where he became the successor of Jules Verreaux ( 1807-1873 ). After the death of Alphonse Milne -Edwards (1835-1900) in 1900, he took over the chair professor in the Department of Mammalogy.
In 1877 he published together with Armand David ( 1826-1900 ) the work " Les Oiseaux de la Chine ... Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau ," a standard work on the avifauna of China with 124 hand-painted lithographs by the artist M. Arnoul. In this work, 807 bird species have been described for the first time, of which 249 are endemic in China. The birds are depicted in their natural environment (eg on a branch ). In 1900, he described 160 bird skins, which brought Jean Dybowski from his expeditions from the Congo.
Oustalet was 1900 President of the 3rd International Ornithological Congress ( IOC) in Paris.
Several animal species, including the giant chameleon and Angola Nektarvogel are named after oustalet. Species such as the Grevy's zebra, the blood wings pigeon, the Palila or the Seychelles warblers were described by him for the first time scientifically.