Émile Oustalet

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Reconstruction of the dodo in the studio of Émile Oustalet, 1903

Émile Oustalet (born August 24, 1844 in Montbéliard as Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet , † October 23, 1905 in Saint-Cast-le-Guildo , Côtes-du-Nord ) was a French zoologist .

biography

In 1874, Oustalet wrote his doctoral thesis entitled “Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France”, in which he described the tertiary insect fauna mainly from Auvergne and the area around Aix-en-Provence . He was employed by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle , where he succeeded Jules Verreaux (1807–1873) in 1873 . After the death of Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900) in 1900, he took over his professorship in the mammalogy department .

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 reference work on the birds 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 to China. The birds are shown in their natural environment (e.g. on a branch). In 1900 he described 160 bird hides that Jean Dybowski brought back from his expeditions to the Congo .

Oustalet was president of the 3rd International Ornithological Congress (IOC) in Paris in 1900 .

He was the first to scientifically describe animal species such as the Grevy's zebra , the blood-winged fruit pigeon , the Palila or the Seychelles warbler .

Dedication names

Several animal species are named after Oustalet. José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage honored him in 1878 on behalf of the Angola nectar bird ( Cinnyris oustaleti ). Philip Lutley Sclater dedicated the yellow bored leaf tyrant ( Phylloscartes oustaleti ) to him in 1887 . François Mocquard named the giant chameleon ( Furcifer oustaleti ) in his honor in 1894 . William Earl Dodge Scott called the gray-flank shore rocker ( Cinclodes oustaleti ) in 1900 . Édouard Louis Trouessart dedicated the Oustalet colobus monkey ( Piliocolobus oustaleti ) to him in 1906 .

Tommaso Salvadori described the Mariana duck ( Anas oustaleti ) or ( Anas platyrhynchus oustaleti ) in 1894 , which is now considered an extinct hybrid.

Also in the subspecies of Schwarzscheitelhäherlings ( Trochalopteron affine oustaleti ( Hartert, E , 1909)), the Andensteißhuhns ( Nothoprocta pentlandii oustaleti ) Berlepsch & proud man , 1901 and the Nikobarhuhns ( Megapodius freycinet oustaleti Roselaar , 1994) include his name.

Gustav Hartlaub described 1879 Strix oustaleti a synonym for Graseule ( Tyto longimembris ( Jerdon , 1839)), 1900 temnurus oustaleti synonymous with the conductor tail Elster ( temnurus temnurus ( Temminck , 1825)), Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune 1883 Scotopelia oustaleti a synonym for Black-headed fish owl ( Scotopelia peli ( Bonaparte , 1850)) and Hans Edmund Wolters 1952 Carduelis spinoides oustaleti a synonym for the black-headed greenfinch ( Chloris ambigua ( Oustalet , 1896)).

Publications (selection)

  • 1874: Recherches sur les insectes fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France (Paris: G. Masson).
  • 1877: with Armand David, Les Oiseaux de la Chine ... Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau (2nd volumes)
  • 1878: with A. Milne-Edwards, Études sur les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des Îles Comores (Paris).
  • 1880–1881: Monograph des oiseaux de la famille des mégapodiidés (2nd volume, Paris).
  • 1889: Oiseaux dans le compte rendu de la mission scientifique du Cap Horn. 1882–1883 ​​(Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils).
  • 1893: La Protection des oiseaux (Paris: Jouvet) - reprinted in 1895 and reprinted in 1900.
  • 1895: Les Mammifères et les Oiseaux des îles Mariannes (2nd volume, Paris).
  • 1899: Oiseaux du Cambodge, du Laos, de l'Annam et du Tonkin (Paris).

literature

  • Philippe Jaussaud, Édouard R. Brygoo: Du Jardin au Muséum en 516 biographies . Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris, 2004, ISBN 2-85653-565-8 .
  • Edmond Perrier : Décès . In: Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . tape 11 , no. 6 , 1905, pp. 365 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Carl Eduard Hellmayr : Emile Oustalet. Obituary . In: Ornithological monthly reports . tape 14 , no. 4 , 1906, pp. 57-59 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage: Espèces nouvelle d'Angola . In: Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes . tape 6 , 1878, p. 254-259 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Philip Lutley Sclater: Characters of new Species of Birds of the Family Tyranidae . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1887 . 1887, p. 47-50 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • François Mocquard: Diagnoses de quelques reptiles nouveaux de Madagascar . In: Compte Rendu Sommaire des Séances de la Société Philomathique . No. 9 , 1894, pp. 3-5 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Tommaso Salvadori: Count Salvadori made some remarks on the Ducks of the genera Anas and Nyroca . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 4 , no. 20 , 1894, pp. I-II ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • William Earl Dodge Scott: Mr. WED Scott described the following apparently new or hitherto undetected species of birds from South America . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 10 , no. 71 , 1900, pp. 62-64 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Ernst Hartert: The birds of the Palearctic fauna systematic overview of the birds occurring in Europe, North Asia and the Mediterranean region . tape 1 . R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin 1909 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch, Jan Sztolcman: Description d'oiseaux nouveaux du Pérou Central . In: Ornis; international journal for the whole of ornithology . tape 6 , 1901, pp. 191-195 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Cornelius Simon Roselaar: Systematic notes on Megapodiidae (Aves, Galliformes), including the description of five new subspecies . In: Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam . tape 14 , no. 2 , 1994, p. 9-36 ( repository.naturalis.nl ).
  • Gustav Hartlaub: On a new Species of Barn-owl from the Island of Viti-Levu . In: Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1879 . 1879, p. 295-296 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Gustav Hartlaub: Subsequent to the ornithology of China and especially Hainans . In: Treatises published by the Natural Science Association in Bremen . tape 16 , 1900, pp. 245-296 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune: Diagnoses d'Oiseaux nouveaux propres à la Sénégambie . In: Bulletin de la Société philomathique de Paris (=  7 ). tape 7 , 1883, p. 165-167 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Edmund Wolters: The genera of the West Palaearctic passerine birds (Ordn. Passeriiormes) . In: Bonn Zoological Contributions . tape 3 , 1952, pp. 231-288 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hans Édouard Louis Trouessart: Description de Mammifères nouveaux d'Afrique et de Madagascar . In: Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . tape 12 , 1906, pp. 443-447 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Émile Oustalet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, p. 254.
  2. ^ Philip Lutley Sclater, p. 48.
  3. ^ François Mocquard, p. 3.
  4. ^ William Earl Dodge Scott, p. 24.
  5. ↑ Édouard Louis Trouessart, p. 443.
  6. ^ Tommaso Salvadori, SI
  7. ↑ Ernst Hartert, p. 633.
  8. ^ Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch a. a., p. 191.
  9. ↑ Cornelius Simon Roselaar, p. 27.
  10. ↑ Gustav Hartlaub (1879), p. 295.
  11. ↑ Gustav Hartlaub (1900), p. 249.
  12. ↑ Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune, p. 165.
  13. ↑ Hans Edmund Wolters, p. 280.
personal data
SURNAME Oustalet, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oustalet, Jean-Frédéric Émile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Montbeliard
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1905
Place of death Saint-Cast-le-Guildo