Eugene W. Oates
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Eugene William Oates (31 December 1845Template:Spaced ndash16 November 1911) was an English naturalist and a civil engineer who worked on road projects in Burma.
Oates was born in Sicily and educated in Bath, England. For a time he attended Sydney College, Bath and later under private tutors.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He was a civil servant in the Public Works Department in India and Burma from 1867 to 1899. He retired to England, where he compiled a catalogue of the birds' eggs in the Natural History Museum, and served as secretary of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1898 to 1901.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
He died in Edgbaston.<ref name="Lockyer1912">Template:Cite book</ref>
A species of Indian snake, Typhlops oatesii,<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. ("Oates, E.W.", p. 193).</ref> a Burmese frog, Humerana oatesii, and seven species of birds are named in his honor.<ref name="Beolens et al. 2013">Template:Cite book</ref>
PublicationsEdit
- Oates, E.W. (1883). A handbook to the birds of British Burmah including those found in the adjoining state of Karennee. Vol II. London: R.H. Porter.
- Oates, E.W. (1888). "On the Indian and Burmese Scorpions of the Genus Isometrus, with Description of Three new Species". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 3: 244–250.
- Oates, E.W. (1889-1890). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Birds.—Vol. I & II. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor & Francis, printers).
- Oates, E.W. (1899). A manual of the Game Birds of India. Vol. II, p. 139-146. Bombay: Cambridge.