226 General Notes. 



chalybeata of Hermann. I am not able to satisfy myself that F. megabalia 

 Hartmann, Zeitschr. ges. Erdkund Berlin, 1868, III, no. 13, p. 55, applies 

 to a cheetah. The animal is said to live in central Africa and to resemble 

 the F. jubata of Schreber's plate. 



From an examination of the specimens in the National Museum it 

 seems probable that Acinonyx soemmeringii (Fitzinger) will have to be 

 recognized as a distinct form, but the material is at present too scanty for 

 conclusive results. The two currently recognized forms will stand as 

 follows : 



Acinonyx jubatus (Schreber). 



AFRICAN CHEETAH. 



177(i. Felis jubata Schreber, Die Saugthiere, pi. cv. (Cape of Good Hope). 



1855. Ci/nailurus soemmeringii Fitzixger, Sitz.-Ber. Math. nat. cl. d. K. 

 akad. Wiss., xvi, lift. 2, p. 245. (Bajuda Steppe, Kordofan.) 



1868. Fel 'is jubata var. africana Hartmann, Zeitschr. ges. Erdkund Ber- 

 lin, III, no. 13, p. 56. (New name for the combined C. guttatus and 

 C. soemmeringii of Fitzinger. ) 



L869. Felis fearonis Fitzixger, Sitz.-Ber. Kais. Akad. Wiss., lix, 1 

 abth., p. 664. (Cape of Good Hope, 1. c, p. (567. ) 



1S77. Felis lanea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 532. (Beaufort 

 West, Cape Colony. ) 



Acinonyx venaticus (Smith). 



INDIAN CHEETAH. 



1827. Felis venatica Smith, Griffith's Cuvier, V, p. 166. (India.) 



1828. Acinonyx venator Brookes, Cat. Anat. & Zool. Mus. of Joshua 

 Brookes, p. 16. (India.) 



— JV. Hollister. 



ON THE CORRECT NAME FOR THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD 

 OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. 



Examination of the series of breeding Red-winged Blackbirds recently 

 collected by Messrs. E. J. Brown, J. H. Riley, and E. A. Mearns, in 

 Charleston County, South Carolina, develops the fact that the form resi- 

 dent on the coastal plain of South Carolina is identical with the Florida 

 bird at present known as Agelaius phozniceus floridanus Maynard, with 

 which it exactly agrees in size and coloration; and resident South Caro- 

 lina birds also have the longer and more slender bill of the Florida form. 



Linnaeus based his [Oriolus] phozniceus on Catesby's Sturnus niger, 

 alls supeme rubentis (Nat. Hist. Carolina, I, p. 13, pi. 13). Catesby's 

 figure of an adult male indicates, by the complete nuptial plumage and 

 slenderness of the bill, that the form portrayed was the resident bird of 

 South Carolina, and not a migrant or winter resident from the north. 

 The text also shows that the author was very familiar with the breeding 

 haunts and nesting habits of the bird, with relation to the ocean tides, 

 making it very probable that the individual figured was taken on the 

 coast. 



