diff --git a/numpy/random/mtrand.pyx b/numpy/random/mtrand.pyx
index bd23ab957ddb..55069097b234 100644
--- a/numpy/random/mtrand.pyx
+++ b/numpy/random/mtrand.pyx
@@ -3493,9 +3493,9 @@ cdef class RandomState:
         cdef int64_t lngood, lnbad, lnsample
 
         # This cast to long is required to ensure that the values are inbounds
-        ongood = <np.ndarray>np.PyArray_FROM_OTF(ngood, np.NPY_LONG, np.NPY_ALIGNED)
-        onbad = <np.ndarray>np.PyArray_FROM_OTF(nbad, np.NPY_LONG, np.NPY_ALIGNED)
-        onsample = <np.ndarray>np.PyArray_FROM_OTF(nsample, np.NPY_LONG, np.NPY_ALIGNED)
+        ongood = <np.ndarray>np.PyArray_FROM_OTF(ngood, np.NPY_INT64, np.NPY_ALIGNED)
+        onbad = <np.ndarray>np.PyArray_FROM_OTF(nbad, np.NPY_INT64, np.NPY_ALIGNED)
+        onsample = <np.ndarray>np.PyArray_FROM_OTF(nsample, np.NPY_INT64, np.NPY_ALIGNED)
 
         if np.PyArray_NDIM(ongood) == np.PyArray_NDIM(onbad) == np.PyArray_NDIM(onsample) == 0: