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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A subspecies of the prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido subsp. cupido) that became extinct in eastern North America during the first part of the 20th century.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) See Heath grouse (above).
WordNet 3.0
- n. female black grouse
- n. extinct prairie chicken
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Prehistoric and Extinct Birds
Does not include "protobirds," which are still dinosaurs (and thus are left on my Dinosaurs list). (They are tagged as such for easier identification, though surely I missed a lot of them.)
aquatilavipes, jibeinia, ichthyornis, iberomesornis, hesperornis, eoalulavis, enantiornithes, phororhacos, otogornis, confuciusornis, gastornis, diatryma and 404 more...
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reesetee The Heath Hen was established as distinct from its relative, the Prairie Chicken, in 1885. Correllus State Forest, on Martha's Vineyard, was established in 1908 as a Heath Hen Reserve to prevent the bird's extinction. The last Heath Hen was sighted there in 1932, shortly after a grassland fire. Sep 22, 2008