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Definition of Lesser prairie chicken
1. Noun. A smaller prairie chicken of western Texas.
Generic synonyms: Prairie Chicken, Prairie Fowl, Prairie Grouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lesser Prairie Chicken
Literary usage of Lesser prairie chicken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"lesser prairie chicken. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus. Range.—Prairies from southwestern
Kansas through Indian Territory to western Texas. ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Son. zone in coast region of Tex. and sw. La. 307. Tympanuchus pallidicinctus.
lesser prairie chicken. Up. Son. zone of Gt. Plains, from Kan. s. to cen. ..."
3. Guide to the Systematic Use of the North American Bird and Nature Study: A by Harold Brough Shinn, Gerard Alan Abbott (1912)
"Certain portions of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas are the haunts of the rare and
smaller form, known as the lesser prairie chicken. ..."
4. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"The lesser prairie-chicken, Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, is also a grassland
species reported to be declining in the Southwest ..."
5. Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering by Joan Burrelli, Carolyn Arena, Carolyn Shettle, Deborah Fort (1998)
"The CRP has been beneficial to many grassland wildlife species, including regular
game birds (pheasants and ducks) and other species (lesser prairie chicken ..."
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