Jules Bourcier Explained

Birth Date:	February 19, 1797
Birth Place:	Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire, France
Death Place:	Batignolles, Paris
Fields:	Ornithology (especially hummingbirds)
Known For:	Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant and Jules Verreaux); Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874
Author Abbrev Bot:	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. .

Notes and References

1. http://cths.fr/an/savant.php?id=107047 Prosopo
2. Civil records. Archives of Saône-et-Loire. Born 19 February, registered 20 February. https://www.archives71.fr/arkotheque/visionneuse/visionneuse.php?arko=YTo2OntzOjQ6ImRhdGUiO3M6MTA6IjIwMjAtMDMtMjgiO3M6MTA6InR5cGVfZm9uZHMiO3M6MTE6ImFya29fc2VyaWVsIjtzOjQ6InJlZjEiO2k6MTtzOjQ6InJlZjIiO2k6NTMxMzY7czoxNjoidmlzaW9ubmV1c2VfaHRtbCI7YjoxO3M6MjE6InZpc2lvbm5ldXNlX2h0bWxfbW9kZSI7czo0OiJwcm9kIjt9#uielem_move=-36%2C-209&uielem_rotate=F&uielem_islocked=0&uielem_zoom=87 image 7.
3. Quäbicker. Gustav. Die Ehrenmitglieder der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft von deren Gründung (1850) bis 1935. Journal für Ornithologie. 87. 2. 1939. 189–215. 0021-8375. 10.1007/BF01951129. 1939JOrni..87..189Q . 20770164 . de.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Bourcier", p. 35).
5. http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Jules+Bourcier%22 Google Books