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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A subspecies of the prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido subsp. cupido) that was formerly abundant in eastern North America but became extinct in the early 1900s.
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- noun female black grouse
- noun extinct prairie chicken
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reesetee commented on the word heath hen
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.
September 22, 2008