heathcock

"You recollect, father, that heathcock we saw some years ago displaying his glossy plumage to the dazzled hens; is that not a well-marked proof of coquetry? and is not this coquetry an indication of something more than mere instinct?"

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

There the heathcock clucked and sang his song of love, as he sat on the top branches of the cedar and admired the grey hen scratching in the fallen leaves below.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

Generally, after my morning tea, I went into the forest to seek heathcock or blackcock.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

One day, coming back from the hunt with a big heathcock, I suddenly noticed among the trees a black, moving mass.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

The heathcock flew from the trees very idly, hares loped slowly down the beds of summer streams.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

The next morning I went hunting and had the good fortune to kill two heathcock.

Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski 1910

Fergus, all the while, with his myrmidons, striding stoutly by his side, or diverging to get a shot at a roe or a heathcock.

The Waverley 1877

Much game of all kinds is thus driven out to be shot, but the sportsman finds true pleasure only in tracking the single heathcock, the solitary chamois.

In the Fire of the Forge — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

Much game of all kinds is thus driven out to be shot, but the sportsman finds true pleasure only in tracking the single heathcock, the solitary chamois.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

Much game of all kinds is thus driven out to be shot, but the sportsman finds true pleasure only in tracking the single heathcock, the solitary chamois.

In the Fire of the Forge — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867