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Definition of Heath hen
1. Noun. Extinct prairie chicken.
Generic synonyms: Prairie Chicken, Prairie Fowl, Prairie Grouse
2. Noun. Female black grouse.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heath Hen
Literary usage of Heath hen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"The eastern Pinnated Grouse or heath hen formerly was distributed along the
Atlantic seaboard from Cape Ann, Mass., to Virginia, and especially was abundant ..."
2. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"Good night, and many thanks, Colonel," I sung after him, then I laughed softly,
for he distinctly lurched — once. THE HEATH-HEN (Tympanuchus ..."
3. Upland Game Birds by Edwyn Sandys, Theodore Strong Van Dyke (1902)
"THE HEATH-HEN (Tympanuchus cupido) Once a numerous species on most of the suitable
ground of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Long Island, ..."
4. The Gallinaceous Game Birds of North America, Including the Partridges by Daniel Giraud Elliot (1897)
"The heath hen is, now at all events, a woodland bird and dwells among the almost
impregnable tracts of scrubby oaks and pines which cover perhaps an area of ..."
5. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"heath hen. Similar to the preceding, but the scapulars broadly tipped with buffy;
... In the early part of this century the heath hen was found locally ..."
6. Feathered Game of the Northeast by Walter Herbert Rich (1907)
"... rest of the plumage of this than in the common species. In choice of food,
habits and mode of life the two species are in perfect accord. THE heath hen ..."
7. Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday (1913)
"THE heath hen.—But for the protection that has been provided for it by the
ornithologists of Massachusetts, and particularly Dr. George W. Field, ..."
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