PINNATED GROUS. 503 



blackish-brown under the eye, inchiding the ear-coverts, and another 

 about an inch and a half long on the side of the throat. Supra-ocular 

 membrane scarlet ; bare skin of the sounding-bladder dusky orange. The 

 long feathers of the cervical tufts are dark brown on the outer webs, pale 

 yellowish-red and margined with dusky on the inner, excepting the lowest, 

 which are all brownish-black. The lower parts are marked with large 

 transverse curved bands of greyish-brown and pale yellowish-grey, the 

 tints deeper on the anterior parts and under the wings. Under tail-coverts 

 arranged in three sets, the middle feathers convex, involute, white, with 

 two concealed brown spots ; the lateral larger, of the same form, abrupt, 

 variegated with dusky, red, and white, the extremity of the latter colour, 

 but with a very narrow terminal margin of black. The tibial and tarsal 

 feathers are grey, obscurely and minutely banded with yellowish-brown. 

 Length 18 inches, extent of wings 27^; bill along the back /g, along 

 the edge J^ ; tarsus 1^ ; weight 1 lb. 13 oz. 



Adult Female. Plate CLXXXVI. Fig. 3. 



The female is considerably smaller, and wants the crest, cervical tufts 

 and air-bags ; but in other respects resembles the male. 



The Tiger Lily. 



LiLiuM SUPERB UM, WUld. Sp. PL vol. ii. p. 88. Fursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. L 

 p. 280 Hexandria Monogynia, Linn — LiliacEjE, Jmsa 



This beautiful plant, which grows in swamps and moist copses, in the 

 Northern and Eastern States, as far as Virginia, as well as in the western 

 prairies, attains a height for four or five feet, and makes a splendid ap- 

 pearance with its numerous large drooping flowers, which sometimes 

 amount to twenty or even thirty on a single stem. The leaves are linear- 

 lanceolate, three-nerved, smooth, the lower verticillate, the upper scatter- 

 ed. The flowers are orange-yellow, spotted with black on their upper 

 surface, the petals revolute. I was forced to reduce the stem, in order to 

 introduce it into my drawing, the back ground of which is an attempt to 

 represent our original western meadows. 



