All food items found to have been used by the greater prairie 

 chicken are listed in Table 5. To ascertain the foods eaten, study 

 was made of one or more crops or gizzards in each of the months 

 of July through December and droppings were studied in each of the 

 twelve months. The combined data on food are shown in Figure 14. 



Table 5. Monthly Occurrence of Food Items Found in Droppings, 



Crops and Gizzards. 



Food item consumed JFMAMJJASOND 



PLANT MATERIAL 



Gramineae leaves xxxxxxxxxxxx 



Panicum sp seeds x x x 



P. dichotomiflorum . . . , seeds x 



Avena sativa seeds x x x x 



Zea mays seeds xxxxx xxxx 



Sorgum. vulgare seeds xxxx xxx 



Triticum aestivum seeds x x 



Gyperaceae 



Cyperus sp seeds x 



Scleria triglomerata .... seeds x 



Dicotyledonae 



(other than cultivated 



legumes) leaves xxxxxxxxxxxx 



Polygonaceae 



Polygonum sp seeds x x 



Rosaceae 



Rosa sp seeds x x 



Leguminosae 



Soya max seeds x xxx xxx 



Lespedeza stipulacea . . . seeds x x 



Lespedeza stipulacea. . . leaves x xxxxxxx 



Trifolium repens leaves x x x 



Medicago sativa leaves x x 



Oxalidaceae 



Oxalis sp seeds, pods x 



Anacardiaceae 



Rhus sp seeds x 



Vitaceae 



Vitis sp seeds x 



Malvaceae 



Hibiscus trionum seeds xxxxx 



Abutilon theophraste. . . seeds x 



Cornaceae 



Cornus sp fruits x x 



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