Claude Marie Jules Bourcier (; 19 February 1797 – 9 March 1873) was a French naturalist and expert on hummingbirds.Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France.Civil records. Archives of Saône-et-Loire. Born 19 February, registered 20 February. image 7.
Biography Bourcier was born in Cuisery, Saône-et-Loire. 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.
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.
A species of South American snake, Saphenophis boursieri, was named in his honor by Giorgio Jan in 1867.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Bourcier", p. 35). The terrestrial mollusk genus Bourciera was named after him, based on specimens he collected for Louis Pfeiffer.
He died in Batignolles, Paris, in 1873.
Publications Descriptions de nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux-mouches, 1839 (with Martial Étienne Mulsant & Jules Verreaux) Collection typique d'oiseaux mouches (Trochilidés), 1874 (posthumous)Google Books (publications).
Sources Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird?: Men and women commemorated in the common names of birds. London: Christopher Helm. 400 pp. .
References