Dr 'Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet' (
August 24,
1844 –
October 23,
1905) was a
French zoologist.
Oustalet was born at
Montbéliard, in the department of
Doubs. He was employed at the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, where he succeeded
Jules Verreaux as assistant-naturalist in 1873. In 1900 he succeeded
Alphonse Milne-Edwards as Professor of Mammalogy.
He co-authored ''Les Oiseaux de la Chine'' (1877) with
Armand David, and also wrote ''Les Oiseaux du Cambodge'' (1899).
Oustalet was president of the third
International Ornithological Congress held in Paris in 1900.