Eugene William Oates was an English naturalist.
Oates was born in Sicily and educated in Bath, England. For a time he attended Sydney College, Bath and later under private tutors. 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.
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