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Donacola castaneothorax (Gould). 
Distr. —Australia and New Guinea. 
Donacola castaneothorax castaneothorax (Gould). (13-340.) 
Amadina castaneothorax Gould, Synops. Birds Austr. pt. ii. pi. 21, 
April 1st, 1837 : New South Wales. (Fig. Gould, iii. pi. 94.) 
Weebongia albiventcr Lesson, Echo du Monde Savant, 1845, col. 295 (reprint, 
p. 232) : New South Wales. 
Donacola bimttata Reichenbach, Die Singvogel, p. 28, (after July 1st) 1862 : 
New South Wales. 
Distr. —New South Wales and South Queensland. 
Donacola castaneothorax northi Mathews. 
Donacola castaneothorax northi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. v. 
p. 40, Feb. 21st, 1923 : Cairns. 
Distr. —North Queensland. 
Donacola castaneothorax assimilis (Math.). 
Munia castaneothorax assimilis Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 
vol. xxvii. p. 28, Dec. 1st, 1910 : Eureka, Northern Territory. 
(Fig. Math. xii. pi. 565.) 
Munia castaneothorax apsleyi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. i. p. 52, April 2nd, 
1912: Melville Island, Northern Territory. (Fig. Math. xii. pi. 565.) 
[? Donacola lipidothorax N. W. (Jaley, Emu, vol. xxv. pt. iii. p. 133, pi. 26, 
Feh. llth, 1926: “ Northern Territory.”] 
Distr. —Northern Territory. 
Donacola castaneothorax gangi (Math.). 
Munia castaneothorax gangi Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 430, 
Jan. 31st, 1912 : Napier Broome Bay, North-West Australia. 
Lonchura thorpei Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. ii. p. 78, Dec. 29th, 1913 : 
Fitzrov River, North-West. Australia. 
Distr. —North-West Australia. 
Donacola castaneothorax nigriceps Rams. (13-341.) 
Donacola nigriceps Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. i. p. 392, 
1877 : near Port Moresby, New Guinea. (Fig. Gould, N. G. iv. 
pi. 25.) 
Distr. —New Guinea (S.E.). 
Donacola castaneothorax sharpei Mad. 
Donacola sharpei Madarasz, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. iii. p. xlvii, 1894: 
Bougu, Finisterre Mts., New Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea (German). 
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