Adolphe Boucard

Adolphe Boucard (1839 – 15 March 1905) was a French ornithologist and trader in specimens who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America.

He concentrated on collecting hummingbirds, sold scientific bird skins to natural history museums, and supplied the plume trade.

He collected birds on expeditions to southern Mexico between 1854 and 1867, and many specimens were sold to P.L.

In 1891 he moved to London and set up a taxidermist company, Boucard, Pottier & Co.

A subspecies of lizard, Phrynosoma orbiculare boucardii, was named in his honor by Auguste Duméril and Marie Firmin Bocourt in 1870;[2] this subspecies is sometimes considered a synonym of Phrynosoma orbiculare cortezii.