French diplomat and naturalist from Cuisery. An expert on hummingbirds, he described a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists, and collected in Ecuador while serving as French Consul in Quito from 1849 to 1850. The herbarium he assembled included cultivated material of oca (Oxalis tuberosa Molina), a yam-like vegetable second only to the potato as a staple crop in the Andes. He also brought back a previously unknown species of bird, the white-throated Quail Dove, Geotrygon bourcieri Bonaparte, which is named after him.

Sources:
C. Voisin, J.F. Voisin and R. Bour, 2005, Zoosystema, 27(4): 839-866.