Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae Author LeCroy, Mary text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 2013-09-26 2013 381 1 155 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/832.1 journal article 10.1206/832.1 85bd2c66-f9f0-4172-8d82-2e8841cd354a 0003-0090 4611863 Aegintha ruficauda thorpei Mathews Aegintha ruficauda thorpei Mathews, 1912a: 431 (West Australia (Coongan River)). Now Neochmia ruficauda subclarescens (Mathews, 1912) . See Mayr et al., 1968: 357 ; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 752–753 ; Dickinson, 2003: 732 ; and Payne, 2010: 354 . HOLOTYPE : AMNH 721958 , adult male, collected on the Coongan River , 20.53S , 119.47E ( USBGN , 1957), Western Australia , Australia , on 18 August 1908 , by F.L. W[hitlock]. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3538) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of thorpei as ‘‘ West Australia .’’ Paratypes are: Coongan River , AMNH 721959–7219961 (Mathews nos 3543, 3539, 3540), three females, 18–25 August 1908 , collected by Whitlock ; Strelley River , AMNH 721962 (3536), immature male, August 1907 , AMNH 721963 (3537), female, 25 August 1908 . As noted above, two names were available for the western subspecies; Schodde and Mason (1999: 753) , as first revisors, chose the name subclarescens over thorpei , both having been published at the same time. Dickinson (2003: 732) followed this; Payne (2010: 354) synonymized subclarescens with clarescens .