106 PHEASANT-TAILED GROUSE. 



The Tiger Lilt. 



Lilium sdperbum, Willd., Sp. PI., vol. ii. p. 88. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept., vol. i. p. 280. 

 — Hexandria Monogynia, Linn. — Liliace-e, Juss. 



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 of four or five feet, and makes a splendid appear- 

 ance 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 scattered. The 

 flowers are orange-yellow, spotted with black on their upper surface, the 

 petals revolute. 



PHEASANT-TAILED GROUSE.— COCK OF THE PLAINS. 



■ Tetrao urophasianus, Bonap. 

 PLATE CCXC VII— Male and Female. 



Although the Cock of the Plains has long been known to exist within the 

 limits of the United States, the rugged and desolate nature of the regions 

 inhabited by it has hitherto limited our knowledge of its habits to the cur- 

 sory observations made by the few intrepid travellers who, urged by their 

 zeal in the cause of science, have ventured to explore the great ridge of 

 mountains that separate our western prairies from the rich valleys bordering 

 on the Pacific Ocean. Two of these travellers, my friends Mr. Townsend 

 and Mr. Nuttall, have favoured me with the following particulars respect- 

 ing this very remarkable species, the history of which, not being myself 

 personally acquainted with it, I shall endeavour to complete by adding some 

 notes of Mr. Douglas. 



"Tetrao Urophasianus, Pi-imsh of the Wallah Wallah Indians, Mak- 

 esh-too-yoo of the Nezpercee Indians, is first met with about fifty miles west 

 of the Black Hills. We lose sight of it in pursuing the route by the Snake 



