Jules Bourcier

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

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[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France.
^ Civil records. Archives of Saône-et-Loire. Born 19 February, registered 20 February. [1] image 7.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Quäbicker, Gustav (1939). "Die Ehrenmitglieder der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft von deren Gründung (1850) bis 1935". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 87 (2): 189–215. doi:10.1007/BF01951129. ISSN 0021-8375.
^ 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).
^ Google Books (publications).

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[PR-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France.

[2] Civil records. Archives of Saône-et-Loire. Born 19 February, registered 20 February. [1] image 7.

[Quäbicker1939-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Quäbicker, Gustav (1939). "Die Ehrenmitglieder der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft von deren Gründung (1850) bis 1935". Journal für Ornithologie (in German). 87 (2): 189–215. doi:10.1007/BF01951129. ISSN 0021-8375.

[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).

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