344 PTERorxocniDJ!. 



a. $ ad. St. Brazil. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



^ c. cf 2 ad. ; d. S.E. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



S \r. sk. 



e. d'jr. ;/. $ S.E.Brazil. Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



ad. sk. 



3. LIOSCELES. r^ypg, 



Liosceles, <SV/. P. Z. S. 1864, p. (JlO L. tlioracicus. 



I formerly referred this curious form, which was one of Natterer's 

 numerous discoveries in the Madeira district, to PterojAochus. But 



Head of Liosceles tkuracicus. 



the shorter and perfectly smooth tarsi and straighter hill Avith 

 ascending gonys fully justify its generic isolation. 



Key to the Species, 



A. Smaller : head hrown ; hreast-hand red and 



yellow !• t/wracictts, p. 344. 



B. Larger: head blackish ; hreast-hand red .... 2. erit/uicus, -p. B45. 



1. Liosceles thoracicus. 



Pteroptochus thoracicus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. G09, pi. xxxviii. (Kio 



Madeira) ; Peh. Oi-n. Bras. p. 46. 

 Liosceles thoracicus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl, p. 76 ; Scl. Ibis, 1874, 



p. 200. 



Above fulvous-brown, rather brighter on lower back ; rump with 

 obsolete black cross bauds ; lores, superciliaries, and ear-coverts 

 white mixed with blackish ; wings and tail brown ; wing-coverts 

 with slight white shaft-spots which are margined with black : 

 beneath from chin to middle of belly white ; breast tinged with 

 pale yellow and crossed by an irregular band of orange-red ; sides 

 of belly, crissum, and flanks thickly covered with black concentric 

 cross bands which are terminated with fulvous ; bill above black, 

 beneath white ; feet brown : whole length 6-3 inches, wing 2-9, tail 3. 



Hab. llio Madeira. 



