Jules Bourcier

Jules Bourcier
Born(1797-02-19)19 February 1797
Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire, France
Died9 March 1873(1873-03-09) (aged 76)
Batignolles, Paris
Known forDescriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant and Jules Verreaux); Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874
Scientific career
FieldsOrnithology (especially hummingbirds)
Author abbrev. (botany)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:

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]

  1. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. 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).