Munia castaneothorax gangi Mathews

LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381), pp. 1-155 : 123-124

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).