[ Lonchura thorpei Mathews]

Mathews (1913c: 78) described this species, apparently based on a female collected on the Fitzroy River, northwest Australia, on 17 May 1913. It is included in the synonymy of Lonchura castaneothorax assimilis in Mayr et al. (1968: 384–385), and all Australian populations are included in the nominate subspecies by Schodde and Mason (1999: 771–772). No specimen from the Fitzroy River came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection.