Lonchura thorpei 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 : 124

[ 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.