Jules Bourcier

Claude Marie Jules Bourcier (19 February 1797, Cuisery – 9 March 1873, Batignolles) was a French naturalist.[1] [2]

Bourcier was an expert on hummingbirds, and named a number of new 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.[3]

Bourcier was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850. In 1857 he became a corresponding member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.[1]

Publications
  • Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant & Jules Verreaux).
  • Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874 (posthumous).[4]

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. 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).
  4. Google Books (publications).
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