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

France

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 zoologist.

Oustalet was born at Montbéliard

Montbéliard

Montbéliard is a city in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department.-History:...

, in the department of Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes and his first scientific work was on the respiratory organs of dragonfly larvae. He was employed at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...

, where he succeeded Jules Verreaux

Jules Verreaux

Jules Pierre Verreaux was a French botanist, ornithologist and professional collector of, and trader in, natural history specimens...

 as assistant-naturalist in 1873. In 1900 he succeeded Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards was a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who settled at Bruges .Milne-Edwards obtained a medical degree in 1859 and became assistant to his father...

 as Professor of Mammalogy.

He co-authored Les Oiseaux de la Chine (1877) with Armand David

Armand David

Father Armand David was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist.-General Biography:...

, and also wrote Les Oiseaux du Cambodge (1899).

Oustalet was president of the third International Ornithological Congress

International Ornithological Congress

The International Ornithological Congress series forms the oldest and largest international series of meetings of ornithologists. It is organised by the International Ornithological Committee, a group of about 200 ornithologists...

held in Paris in 1900.