Steere's Liocichla

SCI Name:  Liocichla steerii
Protonym:  Liocichla steerii Ibis p.474 pl.14
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Liocichla
Taxonomy Code:  stelio1
Type Locality:  mountains of southern Formosa.
Author:  Swinhoe
Publish Year:  1877
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

LIOCICHLA
(Leiothrichidae; Ϯ Taiwan Liocichla L. steerii) Genus Leiothrix Swainson, 1832, leiothrix; Gr. κιχλη kikhlē  thrush; “DR. STEERE, whose ornithological discoveries in the Philippines have lately attracted so much attention, also visited Formosa during his travels in the east.  ...  Amongst several interesting species obtained by him and submitted to me, such as Suthora bulomachus, Sibia auricularis, Garrulax taivanus, &c., was a Liothrix-like bird, which is quite new to me.  Wishing for further information, I waited until I had an opportunity of showing the specimen to Lord Tweeddale.  It was new also to him; and he writes, "It is another evidence of the close connexion that must have existed formerly between Formosa and the Himalayan chain."  I will therefore bring forward this species under the generic name.  LIOCICHLA, gen. nov.  In general character a Liothrix, but with the stronger legs and shorter wings of a Garrulax, and somewhat allied to Sibia.    LIOCICHLA STEERII, sp. nov.  (Plate XIV.)” (Swinhoe 1877); "Liocichla Swinhoe, 1877, Ibis, p. 473. Type, by monotypy, Liocichla steerii Swinhoe." (Deignan in Peters 1964, X, 380).

steerei / steerii
Prof. Joseph Beal Steere (1842-1940) US ornithologist, zoologist, palaeontologist, anthropologist, explorer, collector in Brazil, Peru and Ecuador 1870-1873, 1901, Taiwan 1873-1874, the Philippines and Moluccas 1874-1875, 1887-1888 (Centropus, syn. Ceyx cyanopectus,  Eubucco, Liocichla, Oriolus, syn. Otus manadensis, Pernis, Pitta, subsp. Pyrrhula leucogenis, Sarcophanops).