Munia castaneothorax gangi Mathews

Munia castaneothorax gangi Mathews, 1912a: 430 (North-West Australia (Napier Broome Bay)).

Now Lonchura castaneothorax castaneothorax (Gould, 1837) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 485; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 771–772; Dickinson, 2003: 736; and Payne, 2010: 374.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 721456, adult male, collected at the Mission Station, Napier Broome Bay, Western Australia, Australia, on 23 May 1910, by G.F. Hill (no. 52). From the Mathews Collection (no. 5734) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘NorthWest Australia.’’ Three paratypes came to AMNH: Napier Broome Bay, AMNH 721457 (Mathews no. 5735), AMNH 721458 (6219), AMNH 721459 (6218), all immature males collected by Hill in May and June 1910. A specimen cataloged by Mathews as no. 5736, unsexed, collected at Napier Broome Bay on 24 February 1910 by Hill did not come to AMNH.

According to Whittell (1954: 339), Hill’s activities centered on the Drysdale River Mission Station, 14.07S, 126.44E (USBGN, 1957).