Jules Bourcier

Claude Marie Jules Bourcier (19 February 1797 – 9 March 1873) was a French naturalist and expert on hummingbirds.^[1][2]

Jules Bourcier
Born	(1797-02-19)19 February 1797 Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire, France
Died	9 March 1873(1873-03-09) (aged 76) Batignolles, Paris
Known for	Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant and Jules Verreaux); Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874
Scientific career
Fields	Ornithology (especially hummingbirds)
Author abbrev. (botany)	Bourcier

Bourcier was born in Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire.^[3] He was the mayor of Millery, Rhône from 1832 to 1837, and he was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850. In 1857, he became a corresponding member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.^[1]

Bourcier named a number of new hummingbird species, either alone or with other ornithologists, such as Adolphe Delattre and Martial Etienne Mulsant.

The following hummingbird species bear his name:

• Colibri de Bourcier (Polyonymus caroli), described by Bourcier in 1847;
• Phaethornis bourcieri, described by René Primevère Lesson in 1832.^[1]

A species of South American snake, Saphenophis boursieri, was named in his honor by Giorgio Jan in 1867.^[4] The terrestrial mollusk genus Bourciera was named after him, based on specimens he collected for Louis Pfeiffer.

He died in Batignolles, Paris, in 1873.^[3]

Publications

• Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant & Jules Verreaux)
• Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874 (posthumous)^[5]

Sources

• Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds. London: Christopher Helm. 400 pp. ISBN 978-0713666472.

References

1. Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France.
2. Civil records. Archives of Saône-et-Loire. Born 19 February, registered 20 February. image 7.
3. Quäbicker, Gustav (1939). "Die Ehrenmitglieder der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft von deren Gründung (1850) bis 1935". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 87 (2): 189–215. Bibcode:1939JOrni..87..189Q. doi:10.1007/BF01951129. ISSN 0021-8375. S2CID 20770164.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Bourcier", p. 35).
5. Google Books (publications).